mitch5252
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Do homemade Toll House cookies freeze well?
Could just the dough be frozen and still make good cookies later?
Thanks for your input.
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Todd&Bonnie
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I have never frozen the dough but I keep all my home made cookies in the freezer so they are fresh when we want them. You can eat them right from the freezer if you can't wait a couple of minutes for them to reach room temperture.
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HaftaCamp
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I have froze cookie dough. In fact, if you cook them from frozen, they seem to cook better, and not spread out as much. When I make them, I always put the dough in the freezer for a while before baking for this reason.
Something else I learned the hard way - Once I made cookie dough and kept overnight in the refrigerator so I could cook them the next day.
When I cooked them, they spread very thin and the cookies were flat and hard and crunchy. I don't like them this way - I prefer them softer. What I think happened is that the baking soda lost its power while it was sitting. This doesn't seem to happen when I freeze the dough.
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If you wrap the dough well I don't see why you couldn't freeze it. I've bought cookie dough from the school fundraiser and kept it frozen until I wanted to use it.
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Yes. Easy to do and I do it ALL the time with many cookie doughs. After making the dough, shape them into balls - whatever amount you would normally use for one cookie for that particular recipe. Place the balls on a plate/cookie sheet and freeze them until hard. Once hard you can put the balls into ziplock bags or freezer containers of any sort. Bake frozen, no need to thaw. You may/may not need an extra minute in the oven. Perfect for RV and perfect for smaller families that don't want/need several dozen cookies... you can bake them one (or one dozen) at a time if you want. Very convenient.
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mitch5252
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tgt wrote:Yes. Easy to do and I do it ALL the time with many cookie doughs. After making the dough, shape them into balls - whatever amount you would normally use for one cookie for that particular recipe. Place the balls on a plate/cookie sheet and freeze them until hard. Once hard you can put the balls into ziplock bags or freezer containers of any sort. Bake frozen, no need to thaw. You may/may not need an extra minute in the oven. Perfect for RV and perfect for smaller families that don't want/need several dozen cookies... you can bake them one (or one dozen) at a time if you want. Very convenient.
Thanks for all the tips! Today's cookies are turning out REALLY flat and crunchy - not the way I like them, either. So, I've dropped the remainder of the dough onto parchment and they're now in the freezer. Maybe they'll turn out better.
Any idea why they're flat? Baking soda was not expired...sigh...
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johnna
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Baking soda works by chemical reaction with moisture as dough warms up (even in the refrigerator). Freezing, delays the action.
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I think they even taste better frozen!
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mike4947
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Not to mention they make great ice cream sandwiches.
You can "save" those flat hard cookies by making ice cream sandwiches and wrapping them in plastic wrap and putting them in the freezer for about a week. The moisture in the ice cream migrates to the cookies and makes them nice and tender.
I found that out when visiting an ice cream novelty company and they showed us the cookies for the ice cream sandwiches which were harder than crackers. They stored them for several weeks before shipping to stores.
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There is NO way to hurt a
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