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Mrs. Larkin is a trusted source on Baking.
added over 1 year agoHooray for cookies! Nothing better than a fresh-baked cookie! But most cookies freeze well after they are baked. Better to freeze them than to let them go stale, imho.
Also, instead of freezing one great big hunk of cookie dough, you can freeze cookie dough by scooping out balls of dough, placing on a cookie sheet until solid. Then you can store dough balls in a zip top baggie and bake as many as you want, whenever you want.
mrslarkin, simple but brilliant solution to pre-portion cookie dough
mrslarkin, you are the best! i used to individually freeze cookie dough cookies by wrapping each of them in wax paper; your suggestion of freezing of them in little cookie balls is SO much smarter!!!!
fourth the motion!
Another way to do it is to freeze them in a log so that you basically have your own slice-and-bake. I wrap mine in saran wrap and then either tinfoil or a ziplock. I've never liked frozen baked cookies as much - somehow they just never get their texture back.
Suzanne is a trusted source on General Cooking.
added over 1 year agoThats brilliant mrslarkin, I love that idea. I always froze a big hunk of dough this is so much better.
Cookies can be frozen either the raw dough or the baked cookies. Some recover better than others. Oatmeal cookies (with or without chocolate in them) tend to do very well. Brownies should only be frozen after being baked and cooled.
Cynthia is a trusted source on Bread/Baking.
added over 1 year agoCookie dough, scooped. Stack the scoops on pieces of parchment about 12" square. Stack one on top of another. Be sure the scoops are snugged right up against each other. Double-wrapped in plastic wrap. This eliminates air that can freezer burn and dehydrate them. Pull out and thaw as many at a time as you need, bake them up fresh. Make a pot of very good coffee and share some with a friend.
I freeze the cookies in a plastic bag. They will keep for a few months. But somehow, there are fewer and fewer cookies in the bag as each day passes. What could it be? I have a cookie eating freezer!
Dorie is a food writer and award-winning author of ten cookbooks, her most recent being Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours.
added over 1 year agoWhile most cookies freeze well, I agree with Mrs. Larkin that freezing dough is preferable. I, too, portion out the dough and let the individual rounds of dough freeze on a baking sheet before I wrap them airtight. As ChefJune mentioned, brownies and their cousins are not good candidates for freezing and then baking. However, choc-chips and oatmeals, sugar cookies and shortbreads all do well.
Thank you all--I can now plan my holiday baking accordingly! Great suggestion about freezing individual rounds.
When you bake cookie dough that has been frozen, do you put them straight in the oven without thawing? If so, is the baking time going to be longer?
Mrs. Larkin is a trusted source on Baking.
added over 1 year agoYes, I put my frozen chocolate chip cookie balls straight in the oven without thawing. It does take a few extra minutes to bake. Same goes for most other cookies, I would imagine. The only thing I would make sure to do is, if it's a cookie that needs to be pressed down, say with the tines of a fork or the bottom of a glass or something, do that before you freeze the raw cookies.