Can You Freeze Cookie Dough Balls

Drop cookies shape the cookie dough into balls as you would when preparing to bake them.

Can you freeze cookie dough balls. Chunky cookies like chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin freeze best if you portion out the dough beforehand. Frozen cookie dough will keep for about 3 months. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Cool one minute and remove from baking sheet and completely cool on wire racks.

Remove the pan from the freezer. Freeze for an hour or until solid and transfer to a freezer zip top bag. Roll the cookie dough into even balls i m obsessed with my oxo cookie scoop and place on a parchment lined baking sheet that fits in your freezer. While the dough freezes label a zip top freezer bag with the type of dough the baking temperature and time according to your recipe and the date.

Place them on a silicone or parchment lined sheet. Let the dough freeze until it is completely solid at least 4 hours and up to overnight. Bake 375 for 12 14 minutes. Meanwhile take a gallon sized zip top freezer bag and label it with the recipe name date cooking temperature and time details.

It s crucial that the cookie dough freezes completely so the balls don t fuse together when you store them. Once they re set place the individual dough balls into a freezer safe plastic bag and write the date. Once frozen the little balls of dough get sealed up inside a plastic freezer bag when you need a cookie fix just grab as many as you want to bake. Leave them in the freezer for at least 30 minutes or up to an hour until the dough balls are frozen solid.

Remember to write the date type of cookie and baking instructions on the outside of the package. Freeze the balls for 1 hour or until solid. Freeze until the cookie dough balls are hard. Or flash freeze cookie dough balls and freeze in a labeled gallon size bag.

Bake at 375 for 10 12 minutes. This prevents the balls from sticking to each other.