Accidental Cookie Dough

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    30

    cookies, depending on the size of the cutter
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cookies Unlimited

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

  • About

This is a perfect dough for cookies you might want to decorate. The accident in the title happened when I was making a triple batch of cookie dough for little tartlet shells—a dough that is very fragile after it is baked and sometimes a little difficult to work with. I multiplied the 1¼ cups of flour called for by three and mistakenly came up with 5 cups of flour. I didn’t question my math until I saw that the dough was firmer and drier than usual. Not wanting