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" It&amp;#039;s like a cookie factory here in the test kitchen. We&amp;#039;re busy with our holiday issues and baking up a storm. While I was punching out bells, candy canes, and gingerbread boys, I received a package from Williams-Sonoma. They&amp;#039;re now selling these cute Cars 2 cookie cutters! These decorated cookies would make be perfect at a Cars-themed birthday party. Here are some tips for making cut-out cookies extra cute in the heat of summer:    You want to make sure the dough is cool when you&amp;#039;re cutting out your shapes. As we&amp;#039;re discovering here now, that&amp;#039;s not easy in the summer. The solution isn&amp;#039;t to keep flouring your dough, rolling pin, and cutters--that&amp;#039;ll leave you with tough cookies that taste flour-y. Instead, keep popping your dough in the fridge as you work with it until the too-soft dough firms up again. Another tactic is to roll your dough between lightly floured sheets of wax or parchment paper. I generally prefer rolling right on the counter, but on hot, hot days, I&amp;#039;ll use parchment. After you&amp;#039;ve cut out your shapes and punched the imprints, freeze the shapes. The colder they are going into the oven, the better they&amp;#039;ll hold their shapes.   Once the cookies are baked, totally cool, and ready for decorating, test your ornamental frosting before squirting it right onto the cookies. Squeeze some onto wax paper. If it&amp;#039;s too runny, add some confectioners&amp;#039; sugar. If it&amp;#039;s cracks and breaks, add a tiny bit of water. Last but not least, do all of the steps above in the coolest spot in your kitchen. Our test kitchen gets pretty hot in the summer with all the ovens blasting, but we have a &amp;quot;breezeway&amp;quot; where there&amp;#039;s a continual draft. It&amp;#039;s the best spot for working with dough and decorating the cookies. To see our holiday cookie baking in action, come visit the Test Kitchen on a Good Housekeeping Research Institute Tour. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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