In the vast realm of cookies, the basic slice-and-bake cookie stands as a classic for a reason. Its simple, yet versatile recipe allows for endless variations, making it a favorite among home bakers of all skill levels. Whether you prefer your cookies chewy or crispy, loaded with chocolate chips or adorned with sprinkles, this timeless treat is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. This guide will delve into the secrets of creating perfect slice-and-bake cookies, offering tips and tricks to ensure every batch turns out just right. So preheat your oven, gather your ingredients, and let's embark on a delightful baking journey together.
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EASY SLICE AND BAKE COOKIES
These treats are larger than most slice-and-bake cookies, which I find to be quite nice. The great thing about these cookies is that you can slice however many you want at a time and enjoy them all warm from the oven. -Heather Chambers, Largo, Florida
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 40m
Yield about 4 dozen
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cream butter, Nutella and sugars until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in chips., Divide dough in half. Roughly shape each portion into a 12-in. roll along the edge of a 12x12-in. sheet of waxed paper. Tightly roll waxed paper over dough, using it to mold the dough into a smooth roll. Place wrapped rolls in airtight containers. Freeze until firm, about 1 hour. , Preheat oven to 375°. Unwrap and cut dough crosswise into 1/2-in. slices. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake until lightly browned, 10-12 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 123 calories, Fat 6g fat (3g saturated fat), Cholesterol 19mg cholesterol, Sodium 85mg sodium, Carbohydrate 16g carbohydrate (10g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 1g protein.
SLICE AND BAKE BUTTER COOKIES
Provided by Food Network
Time 1h38m
Yield 60 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl and set aside. In large bowl beat butter and sugar until lightened in color and fluffy, using an electric mixer on medium speed, about 2 minutes. Mix in egg yolks and vanilla. Add flour mixture, mixing on low speed just until flour is incorporated and soft, smooth dough forms. Divide dough into 2 pieces; form each into a log about 7 1/2 inches long and 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate about 1 hour until cold and firm, or overnight. Or freeze, wrapped securely, for up to 1 month. (Defrost in the refrigerator before slicing and baking.)
- Position rack in middle of oven. Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. In small bowl, use fork to beat egg white until foamy, about 30 seconds. Use pastry brush to brush each log with egg white. Sprinkle the 1/3 cup sugar on strip of wax paper then roll each log back and forth in sugar to coat lightly. Use large sharp knife to cut each log into 1/4 -inch-thick rounds. Place 1 inch apart on prepared baking sheets. Press nut half into each cookie before baking, if desired. Bake one sheet at a time until cookie edges and bottoms are light brown, about 18 minutes. Cool 5 minutes on baking sheet, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely. Store in tightly covered container at room temperature up to 3 days.
YUMMY SLICE-AND-BAKE COOKIES
Provided by Ree Drummond : Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 55m
Yield 30 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Combine the flour, instant coffee, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Stir together and set aside. Cream together the butter with the brown and granulated sugar, scraping the bowl once while mixing. Add the eggs, mixing one at a time, and then the vanilla. Add the chocolate-hazelnut spread and peanut butter and mix. Add the dry ingredients in increments, mixing gently after each addition. Scrape the bowl once and mix again. Add the chopped chocolate candies and pecans and mix gently to combine. Add more of either ingredient if needed.
- Spoon the dough on a long piece (or 2 shorter pieces) of waxed paper or plastic wrap. Carefully roll the dough inside the wrap, pressing gently to get it to form into a firm cylinder. Refrigerate for at least 3 to 4 hours, or place in the freezer for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Slice off as many cookies as you'd like and lay the slices on a baking sheet. (The thicker the slices, the farther apart the cookies will need to be; they bake up flat.) Bake until nice and golden brown, about 10 minutes.
BAKE AND SLICE THUMBPRINT COOKIES
Thumbprint cookies just got a lot easier with this bake and slice version. Instead of pressing divots into multiple mounds of cookie dough and filling each with jam, we shaped the dough into a log with a trough and flooded the center in one go. We used raspberry and apricot jam, but it's easy to swap out for whatever you have on hand. Once the cookie logs are baked, let them cool and then slice into strips.
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories dessert
Time 1h25m
Yield about 30 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.
- Add the butter and sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or a large bowl if using a hand mixer). Beat on medium-high speed until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until combined. With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the dry ingredients and beat until just combined.
- Turn out the dough onto a floured surface and flatten into a disk. Divide into 4 equal portions. Roll each portion into a cylinder about 10 inches long and 1-inch wide. Transfer the cylinders to the prepared baking sheets. Lightly press the tops of the cylinders with your fingers to flatten.
- Press the handle of wooden spoon with a 1/2-inch thick handle into the center of each cylinder to create a long trough about 1/2-inch deep, leaving a small border all around. (The cylinders will spread to about 1 1/2 inches wide.) (See Cook's Note.)
- Put the raspberry jam in a small piping bag and pipe it into the indentations of 2 of the cylinders. Repeat with the apricot jam and the remaining 2 cylinders.
- Bake until the edges of the cylinders are golden, 22 to 25 minutes, rotating the pans from top to bottom halfway through. Transfer the baking sheets to wire racks to cool, about 10 minutes.
- Carefully transfer each cylinder to a cutting board and cut them on the diagonal into 1-inch pieces. Transfer the cookies to the wire rack and cool completely.
VERSATILE SLICE 'N' BAKE COOKIES
When you crave a sweet treat or want something fun and festive to make with the grandkids, just pull a cookie dough log from the freezer, slice and pop in the oven. Once baked, these buttery, melt-in-your-mouth cookies from our Test Kitchen will keep for a week...but they'll probably disappear much faster!
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 35m
Yield 4-1/2 dozen.
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. , Divide into three portions. If desired, add candied fruit to one portion. Shape each into a 5-in. roll; place in a freezer bag. Seal and freeze for up to 3 months., To use frozen dough: Remove from the freezer 1 hour before baking. Unwrap and cut into 1/4-in. slices. Place 2 in. apart on baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle with nonpareils and jimmies if desired. , Bake at 350° for 12-14 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks to cool. Frost with melted chocolate chips and sprinkle with nuts if desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 59 calories, Fat 3g fat (2g saturated fat), Cholesterol 9mg cholesterol, Sodium 63mg sodium, Carbohydrate 7g carbohydrate (4g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 0 protein.
SLICE AND BAKE RAINBOW COOKIES RECIPE BY TASTY
Here's what you need: butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, eggs, flour, red food coloring, orange food coloring, yellow food coloring, green food coloring, blue food coloring, purple food coloring
Provided by Claire Nolan
Categories Desserts
Yield 24 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Using a hand mixer or standing mixer, beat butter until creamy.
- Add powdered sugar and beat until combined. Add the eggs, vanilla, and salt. Beat until well combined.
- Gradually, add the flour until dough is moist and holds together, but doesn't stick to your hands.
- Place dough on a cutting board and form into a ball. Cut in half, then cover one half with plastic wrap and set aside.
- Divide the other half into 6 pieces. The outer layers of the rainbow will need a little bit more dough, so make two of them slightly larger than the others.
- Dye the dough with food coloring by placing a ¼ teaspoon of dye on the ball of dough and kneading it until it is one solid color. Gloves optional but suggested.
- Starting with purple, roll the dough into a log about 6-8 inches (15-20 cm) long. This will be the center of the rainbow.
- Next, roll out the blue dough with a rolling pin until it's about ¼ inch (6 mm) thick, slightly longer than the purple, and wide enough to wrap around the purple dough. Repeat with the green, yellow, orange, and red doughs. The further away from the purple you get, the wider the dough needs to be to go around the previous color, making the red dough the widest.
- Wrap the blue dough around the purple, pinching together any cracks that form, cutting off any excess dough. Repeat with the rest of the colors.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- Once chilled, remove the plastic wrap, and cut the dough in half to make 2 rainbow shapes. Set aside.
- Cut the reserved dough in half, roll out to ¼-inch (6 mm) thickness, and make it slightly longer than the rainbow log.
- Place the rainbow dough in the center and wrap the plain dough around it, again, pinching together any cracks and smoothing out the surface.
- Repeat with the other halves. Wrap with plastic wrap and chill for another 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350˚F (180˚C).
- Once chilled, remove the plastic wrap. Slice cookies about ½-inch (1 cm) thick and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until the bottom has browned slightly.
- Cool on a cooling rack.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 188 calories, Carbohydrate 25 grams, Fat 8 grams, Fiber 0 grams, Protein 2 grams, Sugar 11 grams
SLICE-AND-BAKE COOKIES
"I love this cookie dough since it's so versatile," relates Monica Gibbons of Dayton, Ohio. "You can add any kind of chips or nuts you like."
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 25m
Yield 2-1/2 dozen.
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- In a bowl, cream shortening and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, salt and baking soda; add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Fold in 1-1/2 cups "extras". Shape into a 15x2-in. roll; wrap tightly with plastic wrap. Chill 2 hours or up to 1 week. , To bake, cut into 1/2-in. slices. Place 3 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes. Cool 5 minutes; remove to wire racks.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 357 calories, Fat 19g fat (6g saturated fat), Cholesterol 28mg cholesterol, Sodium 256mg sodium, Carbohydrate 46g carbohydrate (30g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 3g protein.
CHOCOLATE PECAN SLICE AND BAKE COOKIES
Steps:
- In a large bowl with a hand mixer or the bowl of your stand mixer, cream together the butter, sugars and orange zest, if using, until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and egg white and beat well to combine.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, kosher salt and baking soda. Stir in the chocolate and pecans.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter and sugar mixture and stir just until combined.
- Divide the cookie dough into four equal pieces, roll each into a 15-centimeter (6-inch) log and wrap in plastic wrap. Place the cookie dough in the freezer for at least 4 hours or for up to 2 months.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Slice off as many cookies as you'd like to bake into 1-centimeter (1/2-inch) thick rounds and place on the baking sheet leaving 2 centimeters (1 inch) in between each.
- Sprinkle the cookies with flaky sea salt, if using, then bake the cookies for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the tops of the cookies are no longer shiny. Remove from the oven and allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
SLICE & BAKE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Make and share this Slice & Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Charlotte J
Categories Dessert
Time 30m
Yield 48 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Cream together the butter and sugars.
- Beat in vanilla and eggs.
- Stir in dry ingredients.
- Add chocolate chips.
- Divide into four balls.
- Roll each into an 8 to 10 inch roll.
- Wrap in waxed paper, then put in a freezer bags.
- Freeze.
- When needed pull out of the freezer, slice and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
SLICE-AND-BAKE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
Make these slice-and-bake cookies ahead and store in freezer for a rainy day treat.
Provided by Deborah Norris
Categories Desserts Cookies Refrigerator Cookie Recipes
Time 40m
Yield 80
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Set out four 12x14-inch long pieces of waxed paper or plastic wrap.
- Cream shortening, white sugar, brown sugar, and peanut butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer. Beat in vanilla extract and eggs until light and fluffy.
- Mix together flour and baking soda in a separate bowl until well combined. Gradually add flour mixture into the egg mixture, stirring until blended.
- Divide dough into 4 pieces and form each piece into an 8 to 10-inch roll. Wrap rolls in prepared waxed paper or plastic wrap and place in the freezer until ready to bake.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Remove dough from freezer and cut into 1-inch thick slices. Cut each slice into quarters and roll each piece into a ball. Place on the prepared baking sheet and use a fork to flatten with a nice crisscross design.
- Bake in the preheated oven until lightly brown around the edges, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on racks.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 155.5 calories, Carbohydrate 17.7 g, Cholesterol 8.2 mg, Fat 8.7 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 2.7 g, SaturatedFat 2 g, Sodium 97.3 mg, Sugar 11 g
Tips:
- Choose the right cookie dough. Not all cookie doughs are created equal. Some are better suited for slicing and baking than others. Look for a dough that is firm enough to hold its shape when sliced, but not so firm that it's difficult to work with. You should also make sure the dough is well-chilled before slicing, as this will help prevent it from spreading too much in the oven.
- Slice the dough evenly. The thickness of your cookie slices will determine how long they need to bake. For evenly baked cookies, aim for slices that are about 1/4-inch thick.
- Bake the cookies at the right temperature. The temperature of your oven will also affect how long the cookies need to bake. Most slice-and-bake cookies are baked at a temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit. However, you may need to adjust the temperature depending on your oven and the type of cookie dough you are using.
- Don't overbake the cookies. Overbaked cookies are dry and crumbly. To prevent this, keep a close eye on the cookies while they are baking and remove them from the oven as soon as they are golden brown.
Conclusion:
Slice-and-bake cookies are a delicious and easy-to-make treat that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. With a little planning and preparation, you can easily make your own slice-and-bake cookies at home. Just be sure to follow the tips above to ensure that your cookies turn out perfectly.
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