By Linda G. Kincaid
Boston Herald

Sure, you'd like to bake some cookies for that party later this month, but you just know that you're not going to have the time to make them that day with everything else going on around you.

This article outlines some steps you can take in advance so that you can easily have those fresh cookies for that occasion. There are even several recipes included.

Here are the steps listed, they are of course, fleshed out in detail in the article.

Step 1: PLAN
Step 2: MIX
Step 3: FREEZE THE DOUGH
Step 4: BAKE
Step 5: FINISH
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