Why
We Love Refrigerator Cookies
Baking cookies seem
to fill the house with a sense of well-being and peace. Perhaps it is
the smell of butter, vanilla, and spices emanating from the hot oven.
Maybe it is the love and caring attention that is evident in cookies.
Home, love, and cookies seem to go together.
We like to bake
cookies often. That’s why we often choose refrigerator, or icebox,
cookies. They can be made up ahead of time-even months ahead-and stored
until ready to bake. Baking up those stored refrigerator cookies is
mess free, takes little time, and you only need to bake what you need
for the moment. Drop cookies are quick cookies; refrigerator cookies
are convenient cookies.
Refrigerator cookies
are also attractive cookies. Nothing beats the uniform slices and consistent
shape of refrigerator cookies. To keep that uniform shape, slice while
the dough is still cold and firm and turn the log after every few cookies
to keep the log round. If the cookies have a flat edge, mold them back
to shape with the curl of your finger before baking.
Form the refrigerator
cookies into logs (or blocks) by placing the dough in waxed paper and
then rolling the dough, paper and all, on the counter to form a uniform
cylinder. Press and smooth with your fingers to make a rectangular log
or block. The logs can be refrigerated for at least a week or frozen
for months. When you are ready to bake, remove the logs from the refrigerator
to unthaw. It's easier to slice a log that is not completely thawed
and the cookies bake fine-though you may need to add another minute
or so to the timer.
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