Once you've mixed up a batch of your favorite cookies and baked what you need at the moment, portion out the remaining dough onto a baking sheet as though you were going to bake the cookies (no need for non-stick spray). Instead of popping them in the oven, pop them into the freezer for 15-20 minutes to get them firmed up. Remove them from the freezer and thrown the dough portions into a freezer bag and return them to the freezer. If it's helpful, you can write the name of the cookie along with the baking instructions (oven temp and time) on the bag. When you are craving some cookies, you can pull out what you want and bake them straight from the freezer. You might need to add an extra minute or two the original baking time.
When I want to serve fresh baked cookies for dessert, I put them in the oven when we sit down to dinner and by the time they bake and cool, they are ready to be eaten. It's not uncommon to find more than one kind of cookies in my freezer at a time.
-Erin
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