When Whitney was a brand-new-rookie-mom, I brought over a half-cooked lasagne and a carton of cookie dough balls from a specialty deli. I thought I was pretty darn smart. Unlike many other things I thought I knew before having a baby of my own, I was best about the cookies! You can bake them one (or two) at a time and have a freshly baked dessert 20 minutes after the mood strikes.
And now, they’re at grocery stores. Yay! See how pleased I am?
I like my hot chocolate chip cookie served over cold vanilla ice cream.
In the interest of full disclosure, Alec and I have also discovered the almost-as-easy diy version and we keep our homemade dough balls in the freezer all the time. A few weeks ago while our babies were sleeping, we:
whipped up a full batch of our favorite chocolate chip cookies
baked two hot cookies as a reward while we did the rest of the work
formed the rest into cookie shapes on a cookie sheet (as close together as you can get ’em)
froze the little cookie dough wads
In the morning, we took our frozen cookie dough wads and put them in a large freezer ziplock labeled with the appropriate baking temp and time. add about 2 minutes to the baking time for frozen cookie dough.
If you don’t care about a hot fresh cookie every night — I don’t understand you, but — we have numerous other fun + helpful projects for parents in our makin it series.