Cookie Dough - Freeze?

[shakeandbake]

I'm making cookies regularly and need some feed back on storing dough. The recipe has butter and one egg, the rest is flour, sugar, baking powder, b. soda, etc. Can I pre-make this and freeze batches or will the cold affect the baking powder? How long could I keep a batch refrigerated for later use (not frozen)?

Second question, storing baked cookies, anyone using a food saver? I was curious if the vacuum pressure would break cookies.

Thanks.

[pgr555]

I freeze cookie dough all the time... can either freeze altogether or shpe into cookies before freezing.I m fussy about my cookies, and this works for me.

[shakeandbake]

Thanks. That's a good idea about forming the cookie balls and freezing that way too. When you freeze the formed dough, how do you thaw?

[pgr555]

Straight from the freezer to the oven

[Risque Cakes]

Originally Posted by shakeandbake

I'm making cookies regularly and need some feed back on storing dough. The recipe has butter and one egg, the rest is flour, sugar, baking powder, b. soda, etc. Can I pre-make this and freeze batches or will the cold affect the baking powder? How long could I keep a batch refrigerated for later use (not frozen)?

Second question, storing baked cookies, anyone using a food saver? I was curious if the vacuum pressure would break cookies.

Thanks.

I 2x or 3x my ginger bread recipe and always freeze it, wrapping it tightly in wax paper, then in plastic wrap, then I put into plastic wrap. I take out what I need.

It doesn't take too long to defrost, or I pop one of the packets into the fridge right before I leave the shop for the night and the next day it's perfect to use.

[dfrantzen]

Yeah theres nothing wrong with freezing the dough, you can also just put it in the frige if you will use it in a few days. As far as storing already made cookies in the freezer I just put them all in a big freezer ziploc until they are good a frozen and they I'll let them pile up. You only have to be careful with them until the harden up in the freezer. They shove them father back once they get hard.