Name: Frozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pucks
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 36 servings
Ingredients: 1 c. unsalted butter at room temperature; 3/4 c. granulated sugar; 3/4 c. packed brown sugar; 2 eggs; 1 tsp. vanilla extract; 2 1/4 c. all purpose flour; 1 tsp. baking soda; 1/2 tsp. salt; 12 oz. pkg. chocolate chips

Frozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pucks

Frozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pucks are an easy way to prep a ready to make dessert for a delicious treat at your finger tips in minutes! Frozen Cookie Dough Pucks Chocolate chip cookies might be my all-time favorite sweet. The balance of sweet dark chocolate with salty and buttery dough is just too good Continue Reading

Prep10 minutes

Cook10 minutes

Total20 minutes

Serves36

Published 26 Mar 2020

Frozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pucks are an easy way to prep a ready to make dessert for a delicious treat at your finger tips in minutes!

Frozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pucks stacked on cookie sheet

Frozen Cookie Dough Pucks

Chocolate chip cookies might be my all-time favorite sweet. The balance of sweet dark chocolate with salty and buttery dough is just too good to resist!

This chocolate chip cookie recipe is the best I have found. I actually got it from my sister-in-law! It makes a perfectly sweet and salty chewey chocolate chip cookie.

The only problem is that it makes a BIG batch. Far more cookies than I need when making for my small family. The solution is to freeze some of the cookie dough into dough pucks.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough in cookie scooper

Frozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pucks on cookie sheet with parchment paper

Can you freeze chocolate chip cookies?

You can absolutely freeze baked chocolate chip cookies, but they are never going to be QUITE the same thawed. When you freeze pucks of dough to make chocolate chip cookies later, you are left with a far fresher result.

I honestly like chocolate chip cookies better when they are baked from frozen dough pucks. When baking cookies, it is best to chill the dough before baking anyways. This way, the dough is chilled to the max!

I find that cookies baked from frozen dough end up a little thicker and chewier, which is my preference. They don’t end up spreading as much as warmer dough when they are baked.

Frozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pucks stacked on cookie sheet with cookie scooper

How to bake frozen cookie dough

When it comes to baking frozen cookie dough, you can make as many or as few cookies as possible. Simply bake them according to the original recipe’s instructions, but just add a couple more minutes to the baking time.

For these chocolate chip cookies, I usually bake them for about 12-13 minutes at 375°.

Whether I am baking fresh or frozen cookie dough, I always like to bake my cookies on a stainless steel baking sheet with parchment paper. It not only makes for easy cleanup, but it bakes more evenly.

If you use a coated non-stick cookie sheet, they tend to cook the bottoms of the cookies faster, often leading to overcooked bottoms that are a little browner than prefer.

chocolate chip cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookie broken in half on parchment paper

Cookie Dough Pucks

To make cookie dough pucks, prepare your batch of chocolate chip cookies, or any other flavor cookie as you normally would. Even better, make a double batch!

Scoop the cookie dough onto a lined cookie sheet using a cookie dough scooper. After you fill your cookie sheet with all of the dough pucks, pop it in the freezer for about 30 minutes.

When the dough pucks are all hard, place them in a resealable freezer bags. Remove as much air from the bag as possible before sealing and place them in the freezer.

When you are ready to make a couple cookies for a treat or a large batch for unexpected guests, just take as many cookie dough pucks from the freezer as you need and bake them up!