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How To Freeze Cookie Dough


Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Freeze Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 1 batch
Cookie dough portioned out onto a baking sheet ready to flash freeze.

Learning How To Freeze Cookie Dough allows you to have homemade cookies whenever the craving hits without making a mess in the kitchen! Perfect when you want a late-night snack!

Ingredients  

  • 1 batch cookie dough

Instructions

  • Portion out the cookie dough onto a baking sheet with a cookie scoop, you can place them close together. This allows the dough to freeze first before placing it in storage bags. Whereas, if you tossed the portioned-out dough into a bag without freezing first, they would all freeze together in one big lump. Then freeze for 1 hour.
    1 batch cookie dough
  • Label a gallon-sized freezer bag with the cookie name, date, and baking directions.
  • Transfer the cookie dough balls to the bag and squeeze out any excess air.
  • Store in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Notes

  • If your recipe rolls the dough in sugar before baking, you want to skip that step. Instead, that step will be completed when you go to bake the dough!
  • Do I need To Bake The Cookie Dough Longer From Frozen? Yes, dough baked from frozen will need to be cooked a minute or two longer!
  • What If My Cookie Recipe Calls For Refrigerating The Dough Before Shaping? Follow all of your recipe instructions, even if it includes chilling the dough. Once the dough is chilled and portioned out, you’ll then follow these instructions to freeze it.
  • Can I Just Freeze Cookies After I Bake Them? Yes, freezing cookies once they’ve baked and cooled works too! However, freezing the dough and then baking it delivers that fresh, homemade cookie taste right from the oven!
  • Is It Better To Freeze Cookie Dough Or Baked Cookies? This comes down to preference! However, frozen cookie dough does take up less freezer space! I also feel like I have to be more careful when handling frozen baked cookies or they may break before getting to enjoy them!
  • Cookie Recipes That Work Great For Freezing!
    • Granulated Sugar Coating – Some recipes like these Peanut Butter Cookies and Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodles call for the dough balls to be rolled in sugar before baking. For this type of recipe, you’ll skip the sugar coating before freezing. When you’re ready to enjoy the cookies, thaw the dough balls until they become a bit soft. Afterward, roll them in their sugar coating and bake!
    • Cut-Out Cookies – Cut-outs such as Classic Christmas Sugar Cookies and Linzer Cookies can be frozen two different ways! First, you can freeze the entire dough ball. Then thaw it overnight in the fridge to roll it out and cut the cookies the next day. Or you can roll the dough out and freeze it as a sheet. You would then thaw it in the fridge until it’s soft enough to use the cookie cutters.
    • Slice & Bake Cookies – Cookie dough that you roll into a log to slice like in this Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies recipe freeze great! Just freeze the cookie log and then thaw it in the fridge until it’s soft enough to slice and bake.
    • Powdered Sugar Coating – Some cookie recipes, such as these Cool Whip Cookies, call for being rolled in powdered sugar before baking. For these types of cookies, you’ll skip rolling them in powdered sugar before baking. Instead, when you go to bake them allow them to thaw until soft first. Then roll them in powdered sugar before baking them.
    • Dough Consistency – Before freezing your cookie dough, examine your dough. If the dough consistency is liquidy or they’re cake-like cookies, I wouldn’t recommend freezing the cookie dough. For example, Classic French Madeleines wouldn’t be a great dough to freeze!


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