For the past year or so I’ve been making cookie dough and putting the dough balls into the freezer to bake whenever I please. Once they are frozen they are ready to go, and all you have to do is heat the oven and place as many frozen dough balls on a baking sheet to pop in the oven for approximately 13 – 15 minutes. You can even mix and match cookies as long as they can be baked on the same temperature. I wish I had started doing this years ago, it would have saved so much time and energy. Some cookies turn out better than others though. Through trial and error I’ve found that the best freezer cookies that I have tried so far are Brown Butter Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Cookies, White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies and most recently Halloween Candy Cookies. They taste just as delicious as if you had made them fresh the same day. Making Freezer Cookies makes sense especially for busy Mom’s. You never know when you will need a batch of cookies for a school function, a potluck or holiday gathering. It’s so easy and no one will ever know you baked them straight out of the freezer, unless you tell them.
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