Dividing Dough for Yule Log Cookies

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail. On behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make these delicious maple yule log cookies. Now that our dough for the yule logs has properly chilled for an hour in the refrigerator it's time to start forming our cookies. The first step that we are going to do is to divide the dough up into eights. So you want to get it out of the bowl and you want to have it in a nice round shape because that's going to be the easiest way to kind of divide it up. So it's a nice round shape you just want to use either a knife or a spatula you want to at least score the top to begin with. It's easier if you just score it to begin with instead of trying to divide everything up now we have it in fourths, then we are going to divide each one of these sections again. So that now we have eight equal parts and now we are going to break off the first section and once you get all these divided up then you can separate them out on your work space. You'll notice that I put a piece of wax paper taped it to the counter top and covered it with flour. If you're using wax paper on your counter top it makes a work surface you can make it as big as you want or as small as you want. It's also quite easy to clean as long as your careful to roll it up when you are finished with it. Then all of that flour will just get picked up with the wax paper if you have a pastry board then that also works very well . But lots of times pastry boards aren't quite big enough if you are working with larger pieces of dough such as doing cookies. Now we have all that divided and we are ready for our next step."