Cookies

When I wrote my first cookbook twenty years ago, I was using the food processor for cookie dough. I’ve been using the wonderful Kitchen-Aid mixer instead for quite some time. Love it !! Let your butter come to room temperature, eggs too. These days, I’m using all organic ingredients too.

I like to mix up all the different doughs on the Friday after Thanksgiving and put it into ziploc bags for the freezer. I flatten out the dough so I can stack the bags in the freezer and mark them on the outside with the kind of cookie, baking time and temperature and greased or ungreased for the cookie sheet. I do also like to use the silicone liners for the cookie sheets. You can freeze the baked cookies too.

I think you all know that you need to pre-heat your oven, but just in case -- do preheat your oven for at least 10 minutes before your cookies go in ! Also, if you are using both racks, reverse your cookie sheets at the halfway time.