I loooooooooove cookies. Really, really love them. I also love baking. There are many days when I have to fight off the urge to whip up a batch of homemade cookies because even though they are so delicious and pleasing to everyone in my house – they are no good health-wise and should really only be a treat. That’s how it goes in this house. The trouble is – most cookie batches that I make yield about 3 dozen cookies. Although there are 2 extra children here during the day, there are actually only 3 of us that live here. We do NOT need 3 dozen cookies. I could just halve the recipe but I don’t ever think to and I have my favorite recipes memorized in full amounts – no need confusing myself.
So the other night, I was about to have girl night with my mom and sister. I was headed to my mom’s house in my cozy clothes (we get comfy and watch movies – nothing fancy-shmancy for us) and wanted to bring a treat with me. I thought real quick and remembered I had some baking chips leftover from another recipe so I ran in the kitchen and whipped up some black and white cookie dough. I scooped it out of the bowl and divided it between two quart-size freezer bags. I took one bag of dough with me to my mom’s and tossed the other one in the freezer at my house. Quick and easy. For girl night we had fresh-out-of-the-oven cookies, but not too many of them. And now, sitting in my freezer is a half-size amount of cookie dough for another night.
I love this because 1.) I didn’t have to go out and buy a package of cookies. 2.) I didn’t bake more than I needed. 3.) I split the ingredients for the recipe between 2 events, when I might ordinarily have baked the same thing twice. It’s like batch cooking for dessert!
A friend of mine keeps cookie dough in the freezer and then only scoops out 2-3 cookies worth of dough at a time for her and her son after supper some nights – brilliant!
Why I do what I do ~ At the beginning of the summer Chloe found some purple stuff in her salad. It was red cabbage. She asked me what it was. Knowing that the name would immediately be off-putting to her, I didn’t answer but redirected her, “Isn’t it cool that it’s purple? Try it. I bet you’ll like it.” She tried it. I almost fell out of my chair in shock. And she said, “Mmm, I like purpleness in my salad.” For the rest of the summer, every time she’s had a salad she looks for the red cabbage and eats it all. A couple times a family member would hear her call it “purpleness” and correct her. When they would tell her it’s red cabbage she giggled and said, “No it isn’t. It’s purple. Not red.”
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Love the story about the purpleness!
And yum! cookies!!
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GREAT idea for cookies! Thanks.
And the “purpleness” is adorable. We call all kinds of things
unusual names just to make them more appealing!
Love this one… gunna add that to our list of fun names!
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Purpleness. We have some strange words for things in our house too. I’ll wait till they get a bit older before I tell them what the item is really called. Love it.
Cookies., Yumm!! I found the freezing idea about 6 months ago. I go a step further and freeze the cookies in log shapes (easier to cut and make awsome shaped cookies) wrapped in wax paper. I also flash freeze lumpy cookies (oatmeal raisin, etc.) in blobs on a cookie sheet or other tray. When they are frozen, I just throw the ready to bake blogs in a ziploc bag. They don’t stick together and I can pull out just enough. Besides my girls have found the joy of eating frozen cookie dough. Better than ice cream they tell me. LOL.
what an awesome idea. I never thought to freeze the cookie dough so that you don’t have to make as many cookies. I have made up cookie dough before and put it in a container in the fridge and just scooped a few at a time out to bake, but freezing is a great idea.
So glad Chloe likes “purpleness” in her salad.. thats pretty cute
I like you love making cookies from scratch. I cannot remember the last time I bought cookie dough or ready made cookies. I, also like you, make too many cookies. We are a family of 3, but I do not give my 20 month old daughter lots of sweets and cookies, so really it is closer to 2. My husband and I try not to eat too much junk food either, so this idea for all my cookie dough is brilliant! Thanks for posting.
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