Butter Holds the Secret to Cookies That Sing

[lsanderson]

By JULIA MOSKIN
Published: December 16, 2008

WHEN home bakers get out the mixer and the decorating sugar at this time of year, visions of perfect-edged cookies and shapely cakes dance in their heads. But too often, the reality — both for the cookie and the baker — is ragged, fallen, and fraying around the edges. More

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