It plays all the right notes
Thursday December 17th 2015, 12:08 am
Filed under: Family,Food,Friends

What I really wanted was beautiful musical cookies to offer the piano tuner, who came today, but the whole thing was just too new and uncertain. I needed a little more proof of concept first.

But I did show off the rolling pin itself and he thought it was as cool as I did.

So after that bit of procrastination, here’s how it went this evening.

The cold dough was very hard, so Richard rolled it out for me between two sheets of parchment paper. A shout-out here to Joanne, whose wax-paper-layers tip was exactly the memory of my mother’s pie baking I’d been trying to think of. Parchment works even better.

We quickly found we needed just the slightest sifting of flour onto the pin, not any more than that, and so I got out the small citrus-seed strainer (or at least that’s what that thing has always been to me.) Shake a little on, shake the excess off, roll the flattened dough with the embossed pin. Lift the cut cookies out with a very flat spatula, re-roll out the rest while those are baking, repeat. And here you have your before baking and after.

I had a toothbrush still new in the package and it was perfect for getting any small bits out afterwards. There were surprisingly few to have to worry about, but still, it was a highly useful tool. Richard’s first try was a flat-edged toothpick and it was too bulky in the tight spots.

The star cookie cutter cut off too much of the musical patterns. You know what this means. I ended up searching Williams-Sonoma, Amazon, Wilton, Ateco (new to me) and Sur La Table looking for cookie cutters in the shapes of the ones the rolling pin vendor used, hoping I can find who makes some and who sells them in easy driving distance.

What, order? And have to wait to make more?

 


6 Comments so far
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So cute! And don’t miss today’s google doodle game.

Comment by LynnM 12.17.15 @ 12:30 am

They are beautiful!

Comment by twinsetellen 12.17.15 @ 5:22 am

Love it! I’ve seen pins like that, but I’ve always been able to resist…hmmm…maybe not anymore. ;o)

Comment by Pam 12.17.15 @ 11:49 am

Love it! And no–don’t wait…I’d settle for a large glass tumbler (big round cookies?) used upside down rather than wait one more minute for cookies… 🙂 Happy I could help.

Comment by Joanne 12.17.15 @ 12:03 pm

I’m with Joanne. Round cookies…yes.

Comment by Helen 12.17.15 @ 4:04 pm

Simply adorable!

We are offering a trade: we’ll send home baked cookies. hihihi

Comment by Suzanne from Montreal 12.17.15 @ 5:55 pm



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