Shaping the Heart Cookie Batter

Video Transcript

"Okay, we'll start by baking our our heart shaped cookie. First, you want to make a pattern for your cookie. Take a eight and a half by eleven sheet of paper, and fold it in half, and just cut a heart shape from that. Okay, just, it's a little fat; I'm going to trim it off. You can test it a few ways, and you just keep trimming it until you like the shape, okay? And slip that; I have a piece of baking paper here, cause' it makes it easy to get the cookie off of the tray. You're going to use a piece of baking paper. Put your heart shape underneath the baking paper, and then we're just going to spread cookie batter onto that area of the heart. Now, when the cookie cooks, it's going to, it's going to spread beyond the shape of the the heart, but I'm putting the heart underneath as a guide, just to make sure that I get the whole heart shape. I don't want to have any funny spots. Now, a good trick for spreading cookie batter is to have a little dish of water, and if you wet your fingers, you can press that cookie batter an even amount. We're going to have probably a little more than a quarter inch of batter on our heart, and just a little bit of water. You don't want too much water, cause' that'll make it a little bit soggy. And you just cover that whole heart. Then we'll bake that. Follow your instructions for baking your cookie. You want to make sure that your batter is nice and even all the way, and it's okay if you go beyond the heart shape. It's just; you want to make sure that you completely cover the heart shape. And the cookie batter will spread as it bakes, and you want to bake that until it's crisp. Don't bake a soft cookie. You want to bake a a nicely browned and crisped crisp cookie, so that it'll be stiff when we cut it into our puzzle pieces, okay. Don't forget to remove the paper pattern from underneath the baking paper. We'll use it later, so don't throw it away. I'm going to put that into my oven. I'm following the instructions from my cookie batter, and when it's nice and brown and crisp, we'll take it out and cut it."