Homemade Cookies On-Demand

Many types of cookie dough can be frozen. Some that work well are chocolate chip, sugar, and butterscotch. Shape the dough into a long roll and wrap well with wax paper and store in ziplock bag. Then, you can easily cut off a few cookies to have homemade cookies on-demand. Our family always has dough in the freezer; my husband throws a few in the toaster-oven after his evening soccer games and we can pop a tray in the oven to serve to unexpected guests. Fast, easy, and YOU control the ingredients.

Here’s my great-grandma’s recipe for butterscotch cookies. She didn’t do the freezing part, we added that later.

In one large bowl place:

• 1 ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
• ½ cup butter
• 1 beaten egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

In a different large bowl place and then mix with a fork:

• Sift before measuring: 1 ¼ to 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ teaspoons double-acting baking powder

Now mix by hand the ingredients in the first bowl (butter, sugar, egg, vanilla) and then add the ingredients of the second bowl (flour, etc.) to the butter mixture and blend well by hand. Yes, you can use a mixer.

Wrap the cookie dough in wax paper and refrigerate, then, after an hour or so mold it into a long rectangular block form, about 12 inches long, wrap in wax paper and a ziplock baggie, freeze. I slice the frozen dough just before baking.

Bake 400 F 8-10 minutes