What cookie dough freezes best?
- Any cookie dough with a lot of butter or fat. Drop cookies are best. Shortbread also freezes beautifully. Icebox cookie dough is great. Delicate doughs don’t hold up well in the freezer– avoid freezing French macaron, pizzelle, or madeleine cookie doughs.
Can you bake frozen cookie dough without thawing?
When baking frozen cookie dough, you do not have to thaw the cookie dough.
Simply place the frozen, pre-scooped cookie dough onto a baking sheet and bake for 2-3 minutes longer than the original recipe recommends.
That’s it!
Can I cook cookie dough from frozen?
If you’re craving a quick batch of fresh-baked cookies, keeping stashes of frozen cookie dough in the freezer is a great time-saver. Even better, many types of cookie dough can be baked from frozen with only slight adjustments to the instructions for baking them fresh.
What can I do with frozen cookie dough?
How to bake frozen cookie dough. Now, you can either let the dough completely defrost overnight in the fridge or for a couple hours at room temperature and bake just as the recipe originally instructed. OR, if you’re impatient like me, you can bake from frozen.
How do you ship frozen cookie dough?
Wrap each cookie in plastic wrap or wax paper. Fill the empty areas in the box with crumpled newspaper or plastic foam peanuts, and pack it tight enough to keep the cookies in place. After taping the box, mark it prominently with “Fragile.”