Chocolate chip butterscotch cookies
When I bake cookies, I tend to lose interest after the first cookie sheet-ful is baked. After all, we’ve got our hot-from-the-oven cookie fix, but I don’t want all the rest of the dough to go to waste. I also don’t mind having ready to bake cookies available. Some folks just refrigerate the dough, but I find cold dough difficult to scoop. Other people scoop it out into cookie size dollops and freeze those – that way, when they want freshly baked cookies, they can just drop as many frozen scoops as they want onto a cookie sheet and bake. That’s a brilliant idea, but as I said, I get bored with scooping the cookie dough after the first sheet. (I think I just have an aversion to scooping – it’s the biggest reason we don’t have ice cream for dessert often.)
What I do, instead, is roll up the dough into wax paper to make my own slice and bake cookies – just like those tubes of cookie dough you can buy at the store, but less expensive and with wayyyy fewer ingredients that you can’t pronounce.
Just put a line of dough on the edge of a sheet of wax paper, and roll it up very tightly. Twist the ends, and drop the rolls (I usually get a cookie sheet full of cookies and two rolls of dough out of one recipe of cookie dough, but obviously that might vary, depending on your recipe) into a big ziploc bag and put it in the freezer.
Cookies being sliced
When you’re ready for cookies, just slice the dough and arrange it on your cookie sheet and it’s ready for the oven. I find that one roll makes exactly one sheet of cookies, plus a tiny bit of dough for each of us to eat.
We love having fresh-baked cookies at the ready – this idea really works for us.
This post is linked to: Works for Me Wednesday at We Are That Family
October 21st, 2009 | 
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Thanks for the tip. I usually scoop dough onto the cookie sheet and quick-freeze it, then put the dough balls into a freezer bag. This is much quicker and easier, though.
My way is quicker and easier at the time the dough is made, and yours is quicker and easier at the time you bake the cookies.
This works great!
This is such a great idea! I would have never thought of this. And that cookie dough looks sooo yummy! lol
DUH! haha this is an EXCELLENT idea. I wish I would’ve read this last week before we made cookies. I have two bagfuls of cookie dough balls in the freezer. It took me all night to roll the balls.
Thanks for the great idea!
Great idea..thanks for sharing. I will be tring this out for sure.
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Great post and GREAT idea!!! I don’t “lost interest” when baking cookies, but this would definitely HELP keep me from overeating all those warm, straight-from-the-oven cookies!! Some now…some on another day. Wow. And what a time saver!! Thanks!!
Ugh, I hate scooping, too! I don’t even get through a whole tray, though. I end up with “cookie bars” more often than not! lol. I love this idea, though. I would probably skip making any cookies right after mixing them and wait until the dough firmed up enough to cut.