sklay723
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OK, so one of my customers' favorites has always been the cookie pizzas (they LOVE them). A good friend of mine hosted a party today, and yesterday she changed her mind about dessert and wanted to do the Decadent Chocolate Dessert Pizza. Fine by me. I sent her the list of ingredients, and thought everything was A-ok. I arrive at her home an hour before the show, and the first order of business was to prep and bake the cookie base for the pizza so that it would be cool by the time we had to put the toppings on with guests there. She tells me that the dough is on the stove, and then goes into the back room to take care of something. I reach for the tube of dough...and find out that it is FROZEN. Rock solid, frozen, hard as a brick! I holler and she comes running, and she has no clue what's wrong.
Here's the important tip...when you tell a customer to purchase refrigerated cookie dough, make sure you tell them to keep it in the FRIDGE. My friend (God bless her) always buys cookie dough and keeps it in the freezer until she's ready to use it, so that she can buy lots when it's on sale. So when she got home from the market last night, she just tossed it in the freezer. You have to fully THAW it before you can bake it!!!
We wound up scrambling and putting the dough (out of the package) on a plate in the microwave and zapping it on defrost. It started getting too warm (melting chocolate chips and making a mess), but in the end it worked out fairly well considering. I got a good chuckle out of it in the end, but I thought I would pass this on just in case anyone else has to deal with something like this. Never would I have thought to tell her to keep it in the fridge (guess I learned my lesson...).
Here's the important tip...when you tell a customer to purchase refrigerated cookie dough, make sure you tell them to keep it in the FRIDGE. My friend (God bless her) always buys cookie dough and keeps it in the freezer until she's ready to use it, so that she can buy lots when it's on sale. So when she got home from the market last night, she just tossed it in the freezer. You have to fully THAW it before you can bake it!!!
We wound up scrambling and putting the dough (out of the package) on a plate in the microwave and zapping it on defrost. It started getting too warm (melting chocolate chips and making a mess), but in the end it worked out fairly well considering. I got a good chuckle out of it in the end, but I thought I would pass this on just in case anyone else has to deal with something like this. Never would I have thought to tell her to keep it in the fridge (guess I learned my lesson...).
