Cookie dough logs

[canadian gardener]

This is a great OAMC technique.

dd was making choco chip cookies from a taste of Home recipe that has become our gold standard for this basic.

As usual she made a huge batch of dough because making dough matters little if you do lots or a little, it's the same mess.

And she froze most of the dough in logs for later pinching off blobs and baking much as the choco chip frozen dough from the Pilsbury ad on TV.

She made 2 trays of cookies to take with her to the church youth group meeting but because she is dieting, she nor I want cookies around, so that was all she made.

And the rest is sitting there waiting for unexpected company or other occaision when she or I will pull out a log or two of dough, thaw partially in the micro or a little bit on the counter and pinch off more cookies to bake.

Which bake well on clay tiles like our 2 pizza stones btw. Great cookies on those.

But that isn't the only way. next post

[canadian gardener]

The other big way is SLICE AND BAKE.

For cookies that you normally roll out and cut, you can simple slice them off the logs of semi frozen dough (slices better when a little bit still frozen) in the thickness you normally roll them out to.

Slice and bake.

Hot cookies.

Brenda (Sinclairswife) has a thread Sugar Cookie Cutouts..Delicious on some sugar cookie dough that is ideal for this purpose.

I really like being able to spend a morning doing up dough

USE A FOOD PROCESSOR IN SMALL BATCHES TO SAVE TIME AND YOUR ARMS

and then freeze the logs, and go rest. If you want to bake that day then hold a log or two out in the fridge, chill and go rest.

Later much later you bake.

Days, months later you still have all that conveniance locked up in the freezer for

FRESH COOKIES (not all mangled and crumbled from being frozen after baking)

but fresh and warm. Makes the house smell great, and the other plus?

Keeps them out of the dieter's way.

[canadian gardener]

Roll out and cut kind of cookies are great to slice and bake

and the kind with nuts, cherries or chips etc are best pinched off in cookie size blobs and pressed onto the cookie sheet.

Follow your recipe instructions regarding greasing of pans, heat and how long.

but another way to press them flat and add a alittle sparkle is

Butter the bottom of a glass, dip in sugar OR cinnamon sugar and press the cookie blob.

(I do this with sliced sugar cookies anyway) and then redip the glass in the sugar and repeat.

you wont' have to re butter the glass, it will do a whole batch like this, just dip press, dip again.

So sugar,
coloured sugar
or cinnamon sugar make it fancy.

Butter the glass, dip in the sugar of your choice, press and bake.

[SewCrafty]

You are one smart :cookie: Margery!

[canadian gardener]

thanks ladies. Glad to share something that made my life simpler.

[Heather]

This is great! The way cookies disappear around here this would make it much simpler. Thanks!!!

[Michelle]

I have been meaning to make these logs for a long time. We go through cookies here way too fast around here.

[canadian gardener]

It's sure cheaper than store bought, and they taste nicer too.

Most recipes will adapt to this technique. The only one that won't is biscotti style that are double baked.

[QuilterMom]

Thank you, Margery!

[Ellise]

Thank you , will save this one to try later.

[Michelle]

Margery, will you please share your chocolate chip cookie recipe--the one you mention above from Taste of Home magazine?

[Guest1]

Thanks Margery!!

[canadian gardener]

Sure, it's the best choco chip I've ever tasted. From Judy Mabry of Myrtle Beach South Carolina. In the oct issue of TOH 2001. MAN these are good.

1 cup shortening (I use it for this recipe only)
1/2 cup butter
1+1/3 cups white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
4 eggs
3 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon juice
3 cups all purp flour
1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
2 tsp bak soda
1+1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
4 cup (24 oz) semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups chopped pecans or walnuts.

In a mixing bowl, cream shortening and butter then sugars till light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.

Add vanilla, and lemon.

Combine flour, oats, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Add to creamed mixand mix well.

Add chips and nuts.

Drop by 1/4 cupfulls 3 inches apart onto lightly greased baking sheets.

Bake at 350 for 14 to 16 minutes or till lightly browned and center is set.

Cool for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks.

Yield: about 3 dozen monster big cookies.

margery here: I use a much smaller ice cream scoop, the melon baller size if I'm doing the cookies fresh. Using a tiny spring loaded scoop makes this job go really quick.

Otherwise I simply form into "logs" and freeze or chill, then slice and bake as per instructions in the original recipe.


if you have clay baking pizza tiles, use them for the BEST cookies EVER. You will have to play with the times a bit, and use the lower racks at the start but they are wonderfully crispy and creamy in the middle.

[slowtypinwoman]

We've been doing this for years. It makes it so much easier when Alex comes in right before bed and just happens to mention at 9 p.m. that she's to bring cookies to school the next day.

I have a friend who loves my oatmeal cookies. Each year in her Christmas basket in addition to the cookies I make for her, I add a log for her to enjoy later when the hustle of the holidays are over.

[canadian gardener]

bumping up for the Christmas cooking baking season. If you get a few batches of dough, (done up using your food processor if you have one, for sheer speed, and wrist relief, THEN

--you too can have your own personal pillsbury doughboy cookie tubes in the freezer for all the Hallmark card moments you want to have with your kiddies around the Christmas season.


Till I discovered the hm tubes of cookie dough the thought of having fun fun fun with my kiddiewinkles in the kitchen along with the mess of mixing up the dough just made me shudder.

Tubes (I discovered this once Christmas quite early on in my journey as a mother) make life worth living and give the kiddies happy memories of a cheerful cookie baking mother rather than a tired wretch whimpering in the corner of a filthy messy kitchen.

Happy Hallmark moments