As someone who’s baked cookies literally hundreds of times, I have had opportunity to experiment with both refrigerated and non refrigerated cookie dough. Refrigerating your cookie dough not only allows your fats to set, but it also helps your flour become more hydrated with the wet ingredients. If you skip this step your cookies might spread too quickly in the oven or turnout with a more cake-like consistency. I recommend placing the cookie dough in the freezer for 45 min just to exped...