Hi all,
I couldn't find a message forum for any of the food network shows, so I figured I would post this here.
I don't know if anyone else has ran into this problem, but I have piped these cookies into the star shapes, and when baked they ended up spreading, leaving me with a flat cookie instead of a lightly browned star shape. I decided to try it several more times, using different methods, in hopes that the star shape would remain.
First, I creamed the butter cold, with the sugar, insuring that it wouldn't soften too much, which I thought might be the reason for the spreading. After I piped the dough into perfect stars, I chilled them in the fridge for two hours. I was positive the cookies would hold their shape, but they spread. I decided to try again, this time freezing them for two hours, They were so firm, you could have played ping pong with them, and they still would have retained their shape! I preheated the oven once again (I forgot to mention that I tried preheating for only 10 minutes, to insure that the oven wasn't too hot, and when that didn't work.. another time, I preheated it longer -- still didn't work), and checked the cookies after 15 minutes..they had spread.
On my third try, I decided to add a little more flour to the dough, and then chill it. No dice. I give up! Could anyone here who managed to keep the cookies in their perfect star shape, please enlighten me?
I couldn't find a message forum for any of the food network shows, so I figured I would post this here.
I don't know if anyone else has ran into this problem, but I have piped these cookies into the star shapes, and when baked they ended up spreading, leaving me with a flat cookie instead of a lightly browned star shape. I decided to try it several more times, using different methods, in hopes that the star shape would remain.
First, I creamed the butter cold, with the sugar, insuring that it wouldn't soften too much, which I thought might be the reason for the spreading. After I piped the dough into perfect stars, I chilled them in the fridge for two hours. I was positive the cookies would hold their shape, but they spread. I decided to try again, this time freezing them for two hours, They were so firm, you could have played ping pong with them, and they still would have retained their shape! I preheated the oven once again (I forgot to mention that I tried preheating for only 10 minutes, to insure that the oven wasn't too hot, and when that didn't work.. another time, I preheated it longer -- still didn't work), and checked the cookies after 15 minutes..they had spread.
On my third try, I decided to add a little more flour to the dough, and then chill it. No dice. I give up! Could anyone here who managed to keep the cookies in their perfect star shape, please enlighten me?