‘The Pioneer Woman’: Ree Drummond’s Cookie Dough Recipe Is Loaded With Surprising Goodies
Ree Drummond makes an easy cookie dough recipe that’s loaded with some unlikely ingredients. The Pioneer Woman star’s “everything” cookie dough recipe gets some salty additions that take it over the top. Bonus, the dough can be frozen and sliced when you need a little something sweet!
Ree Drummond is a fan of slice-and-bake cookies
Drummond wrote about slice-and-bake cookies in a 2012 blog post on The Pioneer Woman website.
“I love slice-and-bake cookie dough because it reminds me of the times during my freshman year in college that my dorm friends and I would buy tubes of the store-bought stuff and eat it straight out of the tubes with plastic spoons,” she wrote.
Drummond continued, “Good news! You can make slice-and-bake cookie dough at home. Most of your cookie dough recipes can be spooned onto plastic wrap or waxed paper, rolled tight, then refrigerated and used as you need it.”
The best part is that you can also freeze the dough and slice it when you want just a few cookies. “I love the approach because you can just slice off as many cookies as you need and they bake up really neat and tidy,” she explained. “And in most cases, you can freeze the rolls of dough if they’re wrapped/protected enough.”
Ree Drummond makes an ‘everything’ cookie dough that includes salty treats
Drummond demonstrated how to make her everything sugar cookie dough on an episode of The Pioneer Woman. “One of the ingredients that makes these ‘everything’ sugar cookies are pretzels,” she said as she crushed them in a zipped bag with a rolling pin.
Drummond creamed sugar and butter in a stand mixer for 3 to 5 minutes before adding vanilla and eggs. She added flour, baking soda, and salt and mixed them at low speed. Then she added pretzels, toffee bits, and crushed potato chips.
“I’m a big fan of everything cookies and basically, everything cookies are regular cookies that you spike with a lot of different things,” the Food Network star explained. “They’re gonna be sweet and salty and delicious.”
‘The Pioneer Woman’ star’s cookie dough can be slices and baked on demand
Drummond didn’t bake the cookies right away. “It’s really great to have cookie dough in the freezer,” she said, noting how they can be baked when a craving strikes.
She placed the dough on wax paper to make 3 logs of dough, wrapped them up tightly, and put them in the freezer for later baking. No thawing is involved when you’re ready to bake the cookies.
Drummond sliced the dough into ¾-inch thick slices, placed them on a parchment-lined baking sheet, and baked the cookies in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven for 15 minutes. She allowed them to cool for 5 minutes before moving the cookies to a wire rack.
The full recipe is on the Food Network website.
