March of the Tools - Cookie Scoop

I like to make cookies. With this tool, I can make 6 dozen oatmeal chocolate chip cookies in under an hour!  I have this recipe down to a science. Really. This 1 1/4 inch scoop makes the scooping go very fast. I can quickly make 6 staggered rows of 4 cookies on the baking sheets. I load the second tray while the first is baking. When the third tray goes in the oven I wash everything up. Total time in the kitchen after the butter is soft is less than one hour.

When I am not in a hurry, I can make fancy cookies. These are especially fun with a large collection of great cookie cutters. I picked these up years ago at a rummage sale.

I get them out every spring. P and I recently made some sugar cookies with these.

I have found that I like making roll out sugar cookies a lot better than I like eating them. Perhaps next time we should make some art clay like the box suggests.

You can see some of my other favorite cookie cutters here and the gingerbread man  shapes here.

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