Mix, Bake, Freeze . . .

Friday afternoon Kari & Ethan came over for a cookie baking marathon. We decided on 4 different cookie recipes, chocolate chip, snickerdoodles, oatmeal, & peanut butter. Kari was in charge of the mixer & blended butter, sugars, eggs, & vanilla, while I measured the dried ingredients.

We only baked one dozen of each type of cookie so each of us would have two dozen to take home. The remaining dough was frozen for future baking.

I formed the dough into a long slender log on wax paper.

Each piece was labeled with a sharpie pen, then wrapped in plastic wrap.

Each roll was placed in the freezer. We ended up with 11 log rolls. Kari took home 7 & I kept 4. Now when the urge strikes to bake cookies we can make our choice, cut off how many we want to bake, wait for the dough to thaw, & then just pop it in the oven. Now instead of baking a big batch we will have less cookies to tempt us.

This entire process only took us a little over two hours to complete.

We had such a good time doing this we're already planning another cooking marathon of some kind sometime soon!

Here's our little future 'Cookie Monster'.

Since Ethan can't eat cookies yet he just sucked on his fingers while we were mixing & baking. He was such a good boy.