Picture this. It’s 8:30pm on Thursday and you have just got the kids settled for the night and have made a coffee, put up your feet and settled in to watch your favourite TV program. Your significant other chooses to take this opportunity to inform you it is his turn to bring a plate for the office morning tea the next day and “could you please bake something?”.
Or maybe it is early Saturday afternoon, you have just got home after rushing around doing Saturday sports and you get a phone call from friends visiting town and they will be on your doorstep in half an hour for a coffee. You haven’t got around to shopping or baking yet and there is nothing to serve them.
Wouldn’t it be great to be pulling fresh hot cookies from the oven in less than 30 minutes and have no mess to clean up or dishes to wash? (This is where you nod and say “Yes Kate, that would be awesome!”)
Then take a look at these.
Frozen cookie dough from Mrs Higgins. Yes, the same cookies that tempt you as you walk through the shopping mall foodcourt. Each pack has 16 frozen balls of cookie dough that you place straight on an oven tray, into the oven and about 15 minutes later you have delicious cookies and the smell of home baking wafting though your house. You don’t even have to thaw them. How easy is that? (And now you say “Wow! Incredible! So what do they actually taste like Kate?”)
The tasting panel (my three teenage sons) all agreed they taste fantastic! According to them they taste ‘almost as good’ as the ones I make myself … but they have to say that. They know what side their bread is buttered on. The flavour is the same as the ones you buy from Mrs Higgins stores with the bonus that you get that lovely smell of cookies wafting from the kitchen. No mess. No fuss. And if you use baking paper on the tray, you don’t have any dishes to wash.
Five flavours are available: Chocolate Chew, Raspberry & White Chocolate, Double Chocolate Chip, White Chocolate Macadamia and Wild Oaty & Fruity, and all are delicious. There are 16 in a packet and they retail at up to about $7.90 depending on where you buy them and the flavour you choose (the macadamia ones are a little more expensive than the rest) although I have seen them on special for $5.99. So even though they are not really priced for everyday, for the taste and convenience they are still good value compared to buying them baked in stores. With the bonus that you appear to be a Domestic Goddess. Just remember not to leave the packet lying around when your guests arrive.
