10 Freezer-Friendly Cookie Doughs to Prep Now and Treat Yourself to Later

There are few things that a freshly baked cookie can’t fix. Whether studded with chocolate chips or full of warm spices, cookies are the tastiest of cures for even the most stressful days. When you need a cookie stat, the best place to look isn’t your pantry — it’s your freezer. Fill your freezer with ready-to-bake cookie dough and you’re minutes away from a warm, freshly-baked batch. Or, bake them off one at a time for that fresh-from-the-oven experience every single night. Here are 10 of our favorite freezer-friendly cookie doughs to prepare now and bake later.

You freezer isn’t fully stocked until you have (at least) one batch of cookie dough on hand. There are three categories of cookie dough that each require a different freezing method: chunky cookies, slice-and-bake, and cut-out cookies.

For chunky cookies, like chocolate chip, scoop the dough onto parchment-lined baking sheets (it’s okay to place the dough balls close together). Freeze the dough, then transfer the frozen balls to a freezer zip-top bag. Slice-and-bake cookies, like shortbread or pinwheel cookies, need to be formed into a log before freezing. Wrap the log in parchment, wax paper, or plastic wrap and freeze. To prepare and freeze sugar cookie dough in advance of the holidays, form the dough into disks, like pie dough, and wrap in plastic wrap.

Regardless of the type of cookie, the frozen cookie dough can be baked from frozen. Simply add an extra minute or two to the baking time.

Read more: How to Freeze Cookie Dough