How to Make Your Own Freezer Cookie Dough

As many of you know, I think food storage covers emergencies as large as a natural calamity to as small as an everyday emergency. Here are some tips for an Everyday Cookie Emergency…because let’s admit it-we all have them 🙂

Option 1: Freeze Your Cookies

We all know that cookie recipes can make what feels like a MILLION cookies and we don’t always want all of them around 🙂 so a great thing to do is to freeze your cookies. Then if you need cookies in a rush you just bring out your bag of cookies and let them thaw on the counter top.

Option 2: Freeze Your Cookie Dough

This option is great because frozen dough lasts longer in your freezer than the cookies and you can have fresh out of the oven cookies with none of the mess!

Step 1: Roll extra dough into a log shape and wrap in aluminum foil. Be sure not to wrap it too tightly or the aluminum foil will get stuck in creases when you take it out of the freezer.

Step 2: Put the wrapped dough into a labeled ziploc bag.

Step 3: Take out of freezer and cut log into 1 inch pieces. (if the dough is too frozen to cute then microwave for about 30 seconds) Then cut the 1 inch pieces into fourths and place on cookie sheet. Follow the original cookie recipe for oven temperature and time.

and Voila! Beautiful looking cookies, straight from the oven in 15 minutes or less with no mess!

Option 4: Cake Mix Cookies

If you don’t have cookie dough or cookies in the freezer this is for you! I always make sure I have a lot of Devil’s Food Cake mixes in my 3-month food storage. They make OUT OF THIS WORLD cookies, take only 3 additional ingredients and have great versatility. You can add chocolate, peanut butter, mint, white chocolate, or toffee chips and it creates a completely different cookie…all from one cake mix! (our fav. is peanut butter)

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