How to Roll & Cut Cookie Dough

I am Tracy -- test kitchen director at every day with Rachael Ray magazine. Today we're gonna roll at cookie down. Here I have some sugar cookie dough from our inability -- cookies. This -- so he wanted to handle that though as little as possible. It's wrap wrapped in wax Paper and so we just -- and wrapping it. And then get the circus ready for world. I have some more all purpose flour. Take a nice a lot of it and put it on my work surface. -- the deal is really colts. You want to soften it a little bit but not too much to be handled it too much with your hands the -- become too sought and then it'll be hard to manage. But this is nice and firm I can tell by pressing on with the -- my hands. -- first we want it to -- the surface with flash our you wanna toss the flower cross so let's lately coating a surface. I'm gonna take the rolling in and dust that also because this -- slightly sticky. And in a press comment to get it telling. Enrolling at -- it's important to remember to roll from the center of the -- Away from you and towards you because if you start here you can create a bump in the middle of the doubt this way you have a nice evening surface of go. So again I'm that it does the top. And start rolling from the center away. I'm gonna rotate the -- don't wanna turn to go over you just -- rotated. Now the -- is probably sticking to the work service at this point so. Two tools that I like to use for this one is have been scraper. This integrate my -- has a ruler right on it and that way if you need to measure your sickness which we'll have to do it you can do that this. More flowers. Weekend because you want to always keep. The dough in a circle. You don't have to lift. You don't have to lift the rolling in off when your -- to just sort of you know. Roll it freely from one direction to the other to get back to the center. Another tool like to -- when the -- is bigger in the -- was bigger is this large upsets spatula. Which you can slice nicely under there too loose in the and gonna rotate it again. And we're almost to a quarter inch thickness which is what we want. This nice to. Now my dough is a quarter inch -- already cut them. Now over here I have a stack of baking sheets you can use flat cookie sheets or it is shallow baking sheets. And I haven't already aligned with nonstick baking -- you can also used parchment Paper. And how many -- some Christmas trees. I -- it but the cutter is close to and it is possible. And press and to the -- Now you don't wanna cut a bunch of cookies. And then removed this is -- very soft out so you wanna remove one at a time -- you cut scenes those still cool enough. I can just pop the cookie. But Amish. There's lots of different things that you can use to cut cookies if you don't have fancy cutters. He can use an inverted glass you can cut them out of the night if you manages had squares rectangles. I wanna get as many as possible -- try to. Cut as close as I can so that maybe get two more out of this. These companies don't spread very much. So we can put them pretty close together now to gather up my scraps. A little bit of flower down. We need to go into a desk. That's kinda sticky so you just have to. Satellite touch pad it and turn it looks kind of like a hockey puck. And then I'm going to be wrapped his departure from plastic or wax Paper and back to the three well. I just used blacks because that's what my mom always did. I've read all my scraps like filled up the trade with cookies are gonna going to refrigerator for ten minutes and then he'll be ready to go into the -- thanks for watching.