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2. Remove the dough from the refrigera-
R tor. Dust a work surface with flour.
Assemble your cookie cutters, a long
the Cake Mix Doctor says metal spat ula (to help transfer the
cookie dough to the sheets), and a metal
Rolled cookies are a different creature pancake spatula (for removing the cook-
from drop cookies.The dough needs
ies from the sheets).
to be cold, so work with only a quarter
of it at a time, leaving the rest in the
3. Place a rack in the center of the oven

refrig erator. Place the dough on a

and preheat the oven to 350°F. Set aside
floured work surface and pound it
with a wooden rolling pin until it is two ungreased cookie sheets.
shaped like a disk.Then, reflouring the
surface and the rolling pin as needed, 4. Working with a quarter of the dough
roll the dough gradually but quickly at a time, and keeping the remaining
until it is ⁄4 inch thick. Flip the dough dough in the refrigerator, place the
1
over as you work, so it doesn’t stick on
dough on the floured surface and pound
the bottom. Work from the center to
1
and roll it out to ⁄4-inch thickness (see
the edge, roll ng in one direction only,
i
not back and forth. “the Cake Mix Doctor says”). Cut the
When the dough is the right dough into the desired shapes and
thickness,flour your cookie cutter and transfer them to the un greased cookie
press it down firmly on the dough. Cut
sheets, using the long metal spatula. If
out the entire round of dough, making
you are not going to frost the cookies
sure your cuts are close together.Run a
floured long metal spat ula underneath (see the box on the facing page), sprin-
the dough to loosen the cookies and kle them with granulated sugar. Place
transfer them to an ungreased cookie the cookie sheets in the oven. (If your
sheet. If your kitchen is warm, let the
oven cannot accom modate both cookie
cookies chill on the cookie sheet in the
sheets on the center rack, place one on
refrigerator for 5 min utes before
placing it in the hot oven. Always place the top rack and one on the center rack
cookie dough on cool baking sheets so and rotate them halfway through the
the cookies don’t spread during bak - baking time.)
ing.If the cookie sheet just came out
of the oven, hold it under cold running 5. Bake the cookies until they puff up
water to cool it off. Then pat it dry
and then sink back, 8 to 12 minutes.
before baking the next batch.
Remove the sheets and let the cookies
rest on the cookie sheets for 1 minute.