[Aerynne]

Originally Posted by 2sunshines

Not the OP, but what do you mean by "getting ready to bake"? Do you put the dough in cookie size portions and freeze like that? Like balls? Or flattened pre-bake dough cookies? Or a roll of dough that you slice (like they sell in the store)? Or other?

I'm intrigued. We do a lot of homemade cookies here, and like to cook in small batches (so we don't have a lot at one time). The idea of making a huger batch of dough and freezing and just pulling from the freezer to bake a few at a time is brilliant.

(sorry, not the OP nor related to Christmas baking... Though if I get good at it maybe I'd do more Christmas baking. )

I make the dough and then use my little dough scoop to place dough balls on a wax-paper covered tray in the freezer. I put them right next to each other- not leaving room like when you cook cookies. Then when they are frozen I take them out and put them right next to each other in a plastic gallon ziploc. I close it most of the way and then use a straw to suck out all the extra air. Then it is sort-of vacuum sealed and I will stack bags on top of each other. Each bag contains one flat layer of cookies. Then when I want some cookies, I take however many out that I want, put them on a baking sheet, and bake at 350 from frozen and they turn out fine.