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Cookie Decorating 101 | The Perfect Cookie Dough

by verycherrycakes

Hi sweet friends! Welcome back to my blogl and thank you so much for being patient with me while I take some time off during my pregnancy. Today we are starting a new series called COOKIE DECORATING 101. In this first video we will go over making the perfect cookie dough and how to incorporate cookies into your baking sweets business.

The majority of the ingredients I use can be found at Walmart, HEB, local grocery stores, local cake supply stores, SAMS, COSTCO, and even on AMAZON.

OTHER NO CHILL COOKIE DOUGH RECIPES ON MY CHANNEL

chocolate cookie dough

strawberry cookie dough

red velvet sugar cookie dough

pumpkin spice cookie dough

Tips for making the cookie dough

-Make sure that your butter is at room temperature: you want to make sure that it is able to incorporate very well with the sugar as this will create the base for the dough.

-Measure out ingredients correctly: when measuring flour always scoop in the flour with a smaller scoop into the bigger scoop and scrape off the excess to ensure that you are only using the amount necessary, no more and no less.

-Knead the dough correctly: wether you are using as hand mixer, a stand mixer, or doing this by hand, you must knead your dough in its entirety otherwise the dough will crumble and you will be disappointed.

Cookie Decorating 101 | The Perfect Cookie Dough
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Cookie Decorating 101 | The Perfect Cookie Dough

Recipe by Cinthia MichelCourse: CookiesCuisine: cookiesDifficulty: begginer
Servings

2.5

dozens
Baking time

12

minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup room temperature butter unsalted (if using salted half the amount of salt in the recipe)

  • 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar

  • 1 cold egg

  • 1 tablespoon vanilla

  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

  • 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour

  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

Directions

  • place room temperature butter and granulated sugar into a mixing bowl and mix until both ingredients become fluffy and lose a bit of the yellow color, this usually takes approximately 3-4 minutes
  • add in cold egg, this will help to make sure your cookies dough is not too soft or too tough, during this time also add in the vanilla and almond extract and mix until these ingredients incorporate. Make sure to stop the mixer from time to time to scrape the sides of the bowl to ensure all ingredients are well combined
  • measure out your flour using a smaller scoop to fill your bigger scoop, this will help to make sure you are not grabbing more or less flour than you need. Once you have the 3 1/2 cups, place them in a bowl and add in the rest of the dry ingredients; salt and baking powder, and whisk them to combine. Scoop in your flour a little at a time and before adding more flour make sure the one your previously scooped has incorporated fully into the butter mixture. Your dough will go through stages, so be sure to be patient. It will look sandy and a bit dry but make sure to keep mixing, if you need to knead the dough by hand do that but make sure to be patient as the dough will come together. When the dough starts to separate from the sides of the bowl that means that it is ready to be used. Check the tutorial video for a visual on consistency.
  • BAKE 325 12-15 minutes

Recipe Video