Earl Grey Cookies

This is the frozen dough, just like store bought slice-and-bake cookies, only much better!

These cookies, from Martha Stewart's Cookies, are a homemade slice-and-bake cookie.  Once the dough is made you roll it into a log and freeze it.   Then you can slice it and bake as many or as few cookies as you want.  (I actually made this dough about a month ago - I made some as a gift for a friend, and froze the rest - and just sliced and baked some more last night.) A whole batch makes about 80 cookies so it is great to keep in the freezer and just slice and bake a few whenever you want them.  The cookies get their name from the addition of earl grey tea leaves to the dough.  They also have orange zest in them, which brings out the bergamot flavor of the tea and makes the cookies taste a bit citrus-y.