Making cookie dough to freeze

I do this a lot because many recipes have a big yield and we don't need that many cookies around at once. There are lots of recipes that you can make the dough in advance and freeze. I use a cookie scoop so they are all the same size and shape, put them on parchment paper on a jelly roll pan with sides and freeze them individually, then once they're frozen I put the dough balls into ziplock freezer bags with a Post-it note that has the name, baking time and temperature. The nice thing is that later when we want a few fresh cookies, we pull out a couple and bake them up.

My DD's favorite are these: Caramel Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

We've also made regular chocolate chip, oatmeal chocolate chip, rolled and cut sugar cookies, rolled and cut gingerbread cookies plus we've bought a few more kinds of frozen cookie dough from a place in our greater metro area that has about 40 different kinds! 

ETA: I would bet there are a lot of busy people who would enjoy getting something like that as a gift (assuming they're not germaphobe Peas, LOL). There are usually so many already baked treats around everywhere during the holidays and this would be something they could bake once all of that other stuff is long gone.

Freezing cookie dough- yes you can.
Freezing cookie dough to gift to someone else- only if I'm walking into their house and handing it to them to stick in their freezer right away.
Cookie dough thaws quickly and if they don't put it in the freezer quickly (or fridge where it will stay cold), it will thaw and then they will have to bake it right away or trash it so the egg doesn't make them sick (and I'm one that loves to eat raw cookie dough, but I would be leery of frozen/thawed/room-temp cookie dough).

I found that chocolate chip works the best.  Oatmeal and peanut butter did not fair the freezing process well.

I would probably make the cookie dough, put it in a cute plastic container (maybe a holiday tub with a lid), and freeze it. then I would give out the tubs as gifts that way you don't have to worry about mushed cookie balls. the recipient can just use a spoon to scoop and put it on baking sheets.

Well now you have to share the Maple Walnut Snickerdoodle Recipe (Please)

If you freeze them individually first, you won't have any problems with them mushing together even you later put them into a tub or even a ziplock bag. At least I haven't, and they really don't thaw out so quickly that it becomes a problem. The bag of dough balls is really only outside of the freezer for a few minutes at a time. The other advantage to pre-scooping is that if you are making a recipe you've personally made before, there isn't any guessing for the recipient as to how long the cookies will need to bake if you put it on a little card with them.