Like, duh!!

 Isn't it funny how an idea will hit you, the simplest or easiest or most obvious thing, and you cannot believe that you'd never thought of it until that very second?  And it shocks & staggers you that you've been blind to it all along?  I had one of those last week.  Frozen cookie balls!!!
Make a batch of cookies, but instead of baking them (or baking all of them) portion them out as usual, and freeze them.  Once they are frozen hard, toss them all into a freezer bag, or storage container.  Brilliant, right?!  (And here is where many of you will say, "Duh.  I've been doing that for years.  Welcome to the party, brainiac.  Really, you call yourself clever?")  When you'd like a warm, gooey, fresh-baked cookie, dig into your freezer bag & pull out the balls.  Bake as usual, adding on a couple minutes more to accommodate the frozen center.
Really, this works PERFECTLY!!  You always get to provide your loved ones with fresh cookies, and you only bake as many as you're going to eat right now- no more of those random cookies laying around to absentmindedly nibble on.  And it's really fun, as you can have bags of different kinds of cookies, and just bake to please your cookie-eaters (right now, we've got chocolate chip with and without nuts.) 
If people have been doing this all along, I've never heard of it.  Perhaps those bakers were being very secretive with their great idea. Well, I'm all about sharing- so go load up your freezer with cookie balls!!