One of may favorite things to do this time of the year is to bake Christmas Cookies. Sometimes though those cookies don’t always turn out. So this year instead of having a baking fail check out some of these tips to make sure your cookies turn out picture perfect.
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Let the dough rest and the cookies set – Michael Wallace, head chef at Cup4Cup gluten-free flour company, says the key to cookie success is letting the dough rest for at least two hours before baking. And when the cookies come out of the oven, let them cool for five minutes on the baking sheet so they can “set up.”
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Freeze the dough before baking – Chilled dough is easier to work with and Tricia Brennan Nally, chef at Sur La Table, advises scooping it and putting it in the freezer to firm up before baking.
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Less can be more – If you’re going for perfection, Nally suggests focusing on nailing one type of cookie first before tackling a lot of varieties. “I’d rather give people one or two of the same kind of cookie and have them be really good than give them 10 subpar cookies,” she says.
