Cooking Tips: Rolled cookies

Make your own custom shaped cookie cutters by using a cardboard cutout pattern and a sharp knife to cut around the cookie dough.

For fewer scraps and less rolling when making cookies, start cutting on the outside edges and work your way in towards the center. It's easier to transfer shaped cookies to cookie sheets if you remove the scraps from around the cut out shapes first.

When re-rolling scraps of cookie dough, dust the surface with equal parts flour and confectioner's sugar. This will help keep the dough from getting tough.

Submitted by: Cheri Sicard

Cheri Sicard is the editor of FabulousFoods.com, where you can find lots more cooking tips as well as recipes, holiday and entertaining ideas, celebrity chef interviews, recipes newsletters and much more.

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