homemade christmas: cookie dough to go!

i posted this last year, but wanted to post this again. i absolutely loved giving these as christmas gifts to friends last year. you can even tell your friends to freeze the dough if they're having sweet treat overload in december.
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ho ho ho, i bring you cookie dough to go.
BAM. rhyming skillzzzzzz.

you know how sometimes i like to start my posts off by rhyming? well, it's really dumb.  but for some reason, i can't stop.

moving on. here is a fun and easy gift giving option for those of you who would love to not spend a ton of money but also give a gift that keeps on giving. as in...a muffin top. who doesn't want/need a muffin top around the holidays? it's so festive. or something.



cookie dough to go!


so just make your dough. here are my go-to recipes.
oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
double chocolate chip cookies (double this one to bake it into 4 packages)

don't use margarine. please. don't profane the cookies.

just divide up your dough.


then put a glob of dough onto some plastic wrap. i'm sorry i had to use that term, but it just looks a little weird.


so wrap this well and then roll it in some parchment paper. i secured the paper down with scotch tape.
tie the ends with bakers twine or ribbon.


make a cute label


or you can just use my design HERE. i took my name off it, don't you worry. print away!
i forgot to write on the instructions to slice into 8 cookies. those will be large...but again, we're giving the gift of a muffin top and this will take large portions. it will make 12 normal sized cookies...but then you would need to bake them for 10  minutes instead.