Icebox cookies are made by putting the formed dough it in the refrigerator (icebox) before baking it. When it's time to make the cookies, the dough is sliced and baked. Continue to 2 of 10 below. Icebox Cookie Dough. Icebox Cookie Dough Photo (c) by Carroll Pellegrinelli
After you've made the old fashioned icebox cookie dough, you can keep it in the fridge or the freezer, and you'll be one step away from delicious cookies. In a bowl of a stand mixer, add the sugar, brown sugar, and softened unsalted butter.
Cut them into thin slices with a sharp knife and place them onto greased cookie sheets. I use the spray product called Pam on the baking sheets. Slicing the rolls of ice box cookies.
My grandparents still had an ice box at the lake and blocks of ice were regularly delivered to keep perishable food fresh and longer-lasting. These ice boxes were the precursors to modern-day refrigerators, but unlike refrigerators, they had no power source.