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The holiday season is prime cookie-baking time and a busy schedule doesn’t have to mean rushed results. Here are some time-saving tips, tricks and techniques for flawless cookies!
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smartcookie By Lauren Bell Isaacs
If you can’t get a whole batch of cookies decorated in a single sitting, keep cookie decorations in a muffin tin, which makes them easy to both store and to move from kitchen table to counter.
No cookie decorations on hand? Find inspiration from everyday kitchen items to make impressions on flattened dough rounds. An empty plastic thread spool or a decorative glass bottom can make flower designs, while a church key bottle opener (tip facing in and pointed side up) pressed around the center of a dough round makes a stylish starburst. Cut your worktime in half with a perforated potato masher for crosshatch patterns on putter butter cookie tops!
Rather than rolling balls of gingersnap or sugar-cookie dough one at a time in sugar, fill a small container or baggy with sugar, place multiple dough balls inside and secure the lid. After a gentle shake, they will all be completely coated in one fell swoop.
Eliminate distorted cookie shapes by using a sheet of parchment paper underneath your rolled-out dough. Cut cookie shapes and use a small spatula to more easily remove the excess scraps of dough from around the shapes, leaving behind perfectly formed cookies. Transfer the filled parchment to a baking sheet.
36 December 2010
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