Basic Cookie Dough Recipe

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The holidays are all about celebrating with friends and family and enjoying homemade baking. With the holidays being so busy, its difficult to make everything from scratch. Why not host a party, inviting over a few close friends, and bake together, stocking your freezer with a delicious assortment of cookies and bars without spending several days in the kitchen?

Dough Toes Hideous! They're short and stubby, crusty and disgusting - they're dough toes! Ingredients: Makes about 64 unmanicured toes 1 (11 oz.

Basic breads are those that are made with a simple recipe of a few ingredients, are yeast leavened, and are usually easy for the home cook to prepare, requiring only basic bread making skills and simple pieces of kitchen equipment.

For many bread recipes the final rising is often the second rising, while other breads may require two or more cycles of rising, punching, and kneading before being shaped and allowed to rise for the final time.

Kneading is especially important when preparing yeast breads because it helps to distribute the activated yeast and it enables the protein in the flour to develop into gluten, which promotes the properties of stretching and expansion in the dough.

A cutting tool for use in making cookie patterns cut into dough to form the shape of a holiday or seasonal object such as an angel, a pumpkin, a star, a tree, or a snowman.

A traditional method of leavening bread using a small piece of dough from the previous batch of bread to create a starter dough for the next batch.

A kitchen utensil with a handle and a square beveled blade that is used to scrape, cut, and section ingredients when working with dough.

A kitchen utensil that is used to mix and thoroughly combine the ingredients required for making dough.

A kitchen tool that is used to hold specific amounts of cookie dough so that it can be manually or electrically extruded from this tool onto a baking sheet or pan to create a desired cookie shape.