I rely on my freezer for all my holiday baking. I'm fond of making refrigerator cookies to just slice and bake, but if I leave the dough in the fridge, I find my husband and kids have eaten it all! So I stash the dough rolls in the chest freezer, label them something silly (collards, anyone?) and hide them beneath the homemade bread and the flax seed. Refrigerator cookies are great in that the rolls can be made in all sorts of fun shapes, adding pizzaz to a cookie platter. I make rectangular Dutch Windmills, square pistachio-cranberry shortbread, round pecan sandies, and triangular chocolate sables. Thanks for your other freeze-and-bake suggestions!

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