Ahh, fresh baked cookies! They are my husband's key to happiness. His favorite have toffee chips in them. Of course its not always easy to whip up a batch of cookies with babe in arms. Here's a great time saving trick: Next time you make a batch of cookies, bake the 15 or so your family will eat in the next few days, and then freeze the rest. Take a lined cookie sheet and scoop the dough onto the sheet using your cookie scoop as you normally would. Since you are freezing these and not baking them you can put them much closer together. Once the sheet is full, cover it with plastic wrap and freeze overnight. The next day, take the frozen cookie clumps and place in a gallon size ziploc bag. The next time the cookie bug bites, just take a dozen of frozen cookie clumps out, place (spread out this time) on a cookie sheet and bake! I just let them sit on the cookie sheet at room temperature while the oven is preheating, and they take an extra minute or two of bake time. Enjoy! (Thanks Laura for the tip!)
Here's a decidedly unhealthy recipe my husband loves:
Mama Hinz's Candy Cookies
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 cup butter
1 cup lt brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp baking soda
3 tsp vanilla extract
1 10oz bag of toffee chips
1 cup of M&Ms
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the flour and the baking soda and set aside. Cream the softened butter and add the sugars. Next add vanilla and salt. Beat in the eggs until blended and then the flour mixture. Finally add the candy. Scoop onto a lined cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 11 minutes.
Cookies sound yummy.
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