There are only so many homemade cookies a person can eat before they go stale. But give the gift of homemade frozen cookie dough, and you've just guaranteed several weeks or months of freshly-baked cookie goodness for the recipient.
There are a couple ways to present the cookie dough. You can portion it out before freezing and package the individually frozen balls in a freezer bag or, if you think the dough will be baked in a big batch, you can transfer it to a paper ice cream container for the recipient to scoop out themselves. But I think the simplest, prettiest presentation is wrapping a frozen cylinder of slice-and-bake cookie dough in parchment paper, with the baking instructions written on the outside. (If the person you are giving the dough to is a less experienced baker, you'll want to attach more detailed directions and an approximate use-by date.)
Frozen cookie dough makes an excellent hostess gift, or just a thoughtful, homemade gift that keeps giving long past the cookie avalanche of the holidays.
Have you ever given cookie dough as a gift? What are your favorite cookies to freeze?
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I'm wondering if it would be possible to preslice the log, insert parchment pieces between the slices, and reassemble the log. That way the receiver can choose to bake them off one or two at a time, if they prefer. Just thinking that this would be preferable to manhandling a knife through frozen dough or having to thaw an entire log at once.
awesome, simple, delightful!!!
Love the pre-sliced dough idea! I freeze balls of cookie dough (single-cookie portions) and put them in Ziploc freezer bags to bake on-demand, so I imagine a presliced cookie log would work, too. You'd want to freeze, then slice, then bag, I'd think.
The only problem with frozen cookie dough is that it tastes even better than the cookies and leads to gnawing on the frozen dough!
Just did this for Hanukkah!!! All the recipients LOVED the idea. Please remind them to bake the cookies first (if there are raw eggs in the batter), one family member just couldn't wait and ate one of the cookie balls, LOL. All year round I freeze balls of cookie dough so I thought it would make a great gift. I balled three different varieties of cookies and froze them. Then I assembled half a dozen of each type in a clear Tupperware container and attached a festive sticker label to each one with directions and the types of cookies. What a yummy idea, Happy Holidays & Enjoy!
What a great idea! Genius!