Cookie confession: A few years ago, I finally embraced the baking shortcut that is prepared cookie dough. A co-worker and his family were moving, and I wanted to bake a batch of cookies to send them off. (My husband’s family has a made-from-scratch sugar cookie recipe that is to die for.) Bit I ran out of time and instead grabbed a package of ready-to-bake cookies from the grocery store. I baked them in 12 minutes, stacked them on a plate and handed them over, a bit ashamed of myself. But when the co-worker called later for the recipe (”My son loved them!”), I admitted what I’d done and convinced myself that, at times, home-baked cookies can be just as good as homemade cookies.
Check out Wednesday’s WichiTalk cover story to find sweet and savory recipes that use prepared dough. And, if you have a recipe for dressing up prepared dough, please share it here. Who knows: I might need a quick batch the next time a friend has something to celebrate.
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I admit I love cookies but hate making them. Frozen/premade cookie dough is the greatest thing since sliced bread…even uncooked!! My kid eats it uncooked. I only found out of course after I had planned to bake a quick batch and opened the box to find only a few pcs of the dough inside. Here’s quick recipe I’ve used alot at xmas time. Using the chocolate chip or peanut butter dough, press a small amount into
mini muffin pan. Halfway thru the baking process pull them out and press an unwrapped mini Reeses peanut butter cup into the dough. Conintue baking til they are done. The cookie will continue baking surround the outside of the peanutbutter cup. These are yummy and look like you worked hard, but didnt!
I have to be the dissenter here and say I get an off taste from prepared dough. I keep a bag of chocolate chips in the freezer, and I can have a batch of chocolate chip cookies in the oven within 10 minutes - just enough time to have the oven preheat. How is that more trouble than using the premade dough?
Now cakes, on the other hand, I doctor up cake mixes rather than make them from scratch all the time.
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