{"id":634,"date":"2015-02-05T07:53:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2015-02-05T07:53:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:53:48","slug":"fundraiser-cookie-dough-overtaking-your-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser Cookie Dough Overtaking Your Freezer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each soccer season we are encouraged heavily to sell
\nextremely<\/span> unhealthy cookie dough
\nto support our kids’ soccer club.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of dough
\nthat you can leave on your counter for SIX months,
\nfreeze\/thaw back and forth or leave in the fridge…
\nand it will be fine.
\nPerfectly fine!!<\/p>\n

Yeah, not exactly stuff you want to push on people you love
\nand want to live a long healthy life! LOL
\nEspecially when I work so hard on our family eating healthy!<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

But…
\nbecause we love to support the soccer club,
\nwe typically purchase 4 tubs of this stuff each year.<\/p>\n

Now these tubs take up quite a lot of space
\nfor the amount of cookies you get from them.<\/p>\n

And in our home,
\nfreezer space is at a premium!<\/p>\n

You can’t leave them in the fridge very long or else
\nthey dry out… fast.
\nNot so bad in the freezer, but again,
\nfreezer space is coveted and not to be wasted!<\/p>\n

But if you leave\u00a0them in the freezer
\nyou nearly break a spoon trying to get the dough out
\n…or you have to wait for it to thaw.
\nI have used an ice cream scoop and it wasn’t horrible<\/em>,
\nbut it did break chips and nuts in half,
\nnot very pretty when you bake the cookies.<\/p>\n

So, this year I decided to try something new…<\/p>\n

Make them more compact, faster & easier to bake!<\/p>\n

{Btw, if you’re following this as directions,
\nnow is a good time to take off your rings…
\ndough does nasty things to rings!}<\/p>\n

I dumped the contents of a tub onto a Sil Pat (or any flexible non-stick surface)
\nand started squishing it into a long lump.<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

At this point I wasn’t going for pretty! LOL<\/p>\n

Then I wrapped the Sil Pat around the dough lump-log
\nand, with very strong hands, gently, but firmly
\nput pressure in the middle and worked it toward the outsides.<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

Once it started “extruding” out the ends of my Sil Pat,
\nI broke the lump-log into two parts,
\nplacing the extra part on wax paper to wait for it’s turn.<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

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\"Stacee<\/p>\n

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Then I repeated the process again by wrapping the Sil Pat around the dough
\nand doing the same thing as before,
\nbut this time trying to make it very even along the whole log.<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

A few times I had to unroll the Sil Pat and adjust the dough and start again.<\/p>\n

Once\u00a0I had\u00a0a “pretty” log,
\nround or square,
\ndepending on how I held\u00a0my hands,<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

I then placed the log onto saran wrap
\nand wrapped the ends first,
\nthen the sides.<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

I labeled each with baking temp and time
\nand, of course, what flavor of cookie it was.<\/p>\n

Then I put them on a cookie sheet
\nand put them in the freezer to flash freeze them.<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

Once they were solid,
\nI\u00a0wrapped them again with wax paper
\njust to give them a little more protection from freezer burn or drying out.<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

It probably took me 15 minutes for three tubs
\n(other than trying to document this for you all)
\nto do the whole process up to flash freezing.<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

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\"Stacee<\/p>\n

The benefit of this process is
\n1) You aren’t giving up nearly as much freezer space!
\n2) You can use any dough for this process, not just fundraiser cookie\u00a0dough!
\n3) You can simply grab a frozen log and slice off the cookies you need.
\n4) Super fast and easy.<\/p>\n

\"Stacee<\/p>\n

However, this process does nothing to help the nutritional value of the cookies!\u00a0LOL
\nBut they do taste gooood! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: photos taken with my cell phone with greasy fingers…
\nobviously not taken for quality as much as visual to help the process be better understood.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each soccer season we are encouraged heavily to sell extremely unhealthy cookie dough to support our kids’ soccer club. This is the kind of dough that you can leave on your counter for SIX months, freeze\/thaw back and forth or leave in the fridge… and it will be fine. Perfectly fine!! Yeah, not exactly stuff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,10,11,15],"tags":[42,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}