 [ Symptoms ] baked cookies during dayevening came down with stomach bugfever later in same evening are cookies safe to eat  i plan to freeze the cookies until christmas but i am reading that freezing does not kill germs do not want to throw away all of my work but do not want to get anyone else sick  [ Disease ] freezing does not necessarily kill germs but baking those cookies in a hot oven certainly can while germs can remain viable on certain objects for hours or even days i would not think that your hard work making cookies would put others at risk you can send them to me i will eat em