Icebox cookies

I like to make the dough and keep at least one or two rolled dough sticks in the freezer over the holidays. The cookies can easily and quickly be baked should you find yourself hosting unexpected company, or find yourself craving fresh baked cookies!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 4 cups flour
• 1/2 cup glacé (candied) cherries or 1/2 cup almonds

Method:

• cream together butter, brown sugar, white sugar and eggs
• add salt, vanilla and baking soda and mix well
• add optional items (chopped glacé cherries or chopped almonds) and mix (glacé cherries shown)
  
• slowly add flour whlie mixing
• stop adding flour when you have a thick dough (usually somewhere between 3.5 cups and four cups)
  
  
• break off a piece of dough and make a roll about 23cm (9") long and 3cm (1.25") in diameter
• flatten sides to make a rectange about 23cm (9") long and 2.5cm (1") high and 2.5cm (1") wide
  
  
  
  
• wrap in waxed paper and place in freezer bag
• refrigerate for at least two hours (until dough is firm) or freeze overnight before baking

Ready to bake?

• preheat oven to 325 degrees F
• remove dough from fridge / freezer
• cut into 5mm (3/16") slices
  
  
  
  
• bake for about 7 minutes or until golden

Makes ~200 cookies of this size.