Cookie Baking Tips

"Tis the season to be baking, Fa la la la la la, la la la la"

Giving a batch of cookies you baked or some other baked good, is a perfect way to show someone you love them at Christmas.  

Below are a few of the baking tips I use when I am putting together my Christmas baskets.   

Sugar Cookies Tip:

To make it easier to roll out sugar cookie dough, place it between two sheets of waxed paper before you roll out the dough.  This will keep the dough from sticking to your rolling pin.

Roll out small batches of the dough and keep the remaining dough in the refrigerator until you are ready to use it.

Bar Cookies:

I like to line the baking pan that I use to make bar cookies in, with aluminum foil.  I cut a piece if foil several inches wider and longer than the pan, so I can easily lift the bar cookies out of it.  To form the foil to fit the pan, I turn the pan upside down, then mold the foil around it.

Flip the pan back over, and place the foil inside, pressing it into place.  Fold the excess foil around the outside of the pan.  You can grease the foil if the recipe calls for it, then bake as directed.  I have several pieces of foil formed ahead of time, so I can pull the baked bar cookies out of the pan, and place on a wire rack to cool.  I then place a new preformed foil liner back into the pan; then I can immediately reuse the pan without waiting for the cookies to cool first.

On Friday, I will be posting one of my favorite side dishes,
Wacky Wild Rice.

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Another blog that I think you would enjoy is my friend Janet's blog, 

Chocolate and God.