The $4.99 Aldi Freezer Find So Good It Tastes Homemade

I bake a lot of cookies. Although my husband said it was my pasta that made him want to marry me, my cookies have probably helped sustain our marriage since he’s an absolute cookie monster. Our 15-year-old son is also a cookie lover.

But when I don’t have time to make a dough from scratch—or my son is craving raw cookie dough—I pick up ready-to-bake cookie dough, and my favorite grocery store on the planet now sells ready-to-bake cookie dough.

Why I Love Aldi’s Ready-To-Bake Cookie Dough

I wish I could say I discovered this gem of a product at Aldi, but it was my 15-year-old cookie-dough lover who spied it first in the freezer section. The new Aldi brand Ready-To-Bake Cookie Dough comes in two flavors: chocolate chip and peanut butter.

The entire box of two dozen cookies—weighing 24 ounces and ready to pop in the oven—costs only $4.99. It is a whole lot less expensive per ounce than many ready-to-bake cookie doughs on the market.

After my son found the cookie dough, we had to buy it.  As soon as we got home—before I could put it in the freezer—my son popped one raw cookie into his mouth. “Ooh, this is soooo good,” he told me. 

“I love how many cookies there are here,” he told me, as I took the box away from him before he ate all 24 of the cookies straight from the package, uncooked. I know there are valid health and safety concerns about eating raw dough, but try talking to a teenage boy about safety concerns. In any case, before he could eat the entire 24 cookie dough balls raw, I decided to bake them. 

How To Make Aldi’s Ready-To-Bake Cookies

The instructions recommend baking them in a convection oven at 325°F or not-convection at 350°F, for 11 to 13 minutes, and removing them when they are slightly underbaked, as they will finish baking as they cool. I tried them in my super-hot convection oven, taking them out at 10 minutes and letting them cool.

My house smelled like chocolate and vanilla, and once I took them out and let them cool, I enjoyed one—perfect for dunking in a cold glass of milk or a mug of hot cocoa. My husband, the original cookie monster in our house, said, “These are pretty fantastic for ready-bake cookies.”

My son asked if he could try one after I baked them. “Okay, these are even better when they’re baked.” That’s a good endorsement. We’re going to try the peanut butter cookies next and be sure to keep them stocked in the freezer.

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