To freeze, I use a cookie dough scoop to scoop out all the homemade dough onto a baking sheet, with the dough-balls spaced close together but not touching (dough pictured in the pan here is spaced far apart for baking). A few hours in the freezer until the dough is frozen enough to keep from sticking together and then all the dough balls can be tossed into a freezer storage container.
No need to toss those store-bought, high fructose corn syrup laden, pre-packaged cookies into the grocery cart when freshly baked cookies can be had at home.
After thawing the dough a minimum of 10 minutes, I made the mistake of baking a whole tray of cookies last night, which meant I ATE too many cookies last night. Sooo much better when I bake myself just a couple of cookies at a time in the toaster oven. Saves me calories AND money!
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@Concerned Foodie: (Unfortunately, your comment contained a link that was kinda squirrelly; this is the only reason it was deleted.) I buy organic free range humane certified eggs, so I don't worry too much about recalls.
This is brilliant! Can't believe I never thought of this!
Mmm. Cookie dough certainly is like money in the bank! I will have to remember this the next time I make them.
I've done this before and it was a great time saver! Thanks for the reminder!
Absolutely brilliant. Especially since, with butter cookies, you have to chill the dough anyway. One less step the next day!
what a great idea..thanks for sharing this.
There are no kids here except me when it comes to eating cookies! This would not stop me from eating too many since I know how to go back again and turn on the oven...lol. Plus, skip the middleman; eat them frozen--no cooking needed. What freezing the dough balls would do is to help me to bake cookies, lots of cookies at once since I would have the hard work done. I can see making over several days or weeks many batches of different cookies and freezing them. A cooking marathon would be just cooking, not measuring, mixing, washing dishes over and over. Good idea you have.
awww, thanks for all the feedback, you guys! I appreciate it.
@Spicy, thanks for your recipe for Orange/Chocolate/Cranberry Shortbread: http://aspicyperspective.blogspot.com/2010/12/merry-shortbread.html. Had some for lunch, and it was divine. Took the 2nd pan to my folks, and they love it too.
I did this once this summer with the intention of pulling a few out at a time and baking them, but my hubby and I love raw cookie dough so much, we would just pull out a cookie dough ball or two and eat them like that!
I guess it saved electricity? haha.
*grin* oh, Mary, that's a hoot! sounds sooo cold!
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