HI! just an aside....I live in India and am one of the few here to have a freezer, mixer, AND a 'western' style oven. As the weather is kind of warm and my oven is small so I often freeze cookie dough. One handy tip I have found is to roll the fresh cookie dough into 'logs', wrap the 'logs' in plastic wrap, and use the CARDBOARD TUBES FROM PAPER TOWELS to store the cookie dough 'logs' in the freezer. The cardboard tubes are easy to store in my crowded freezer. The tubes also keep the 'log' shape making it easy to slice'n'bake the cookie dough. Just allow the dough to thaw a bit longer and you can roll out 'cut out' cookies if desired. I freeze chocolate chip, sugar, gingersnap/bread, pfeffernusse, and cardamom cookie dough like this successfully. Namaste! Great tip, T - are your neighbors the recipients of this cookie largesse? One of my fellow test kitchen bakers does this - she "hinges" the tubes in half lengthwise to make them easy to pack with dough, then rubber-bands them back up. Another reader packs cookie dough in empty plastic wrap or aluminum foil cartons - says the resulting square cookies bake up just fine. Bigger cookies could be done in Pringles cans, I'd imagine. Hey, next year we can all exchange ingenious cookie dough storage ideas! Thanks for connecting - I love that the Web brings physically distant worlds so much closer together. Namaste - PJH

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