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Using the Cookie Thing: My Latest Kitchen Gadget

November 25, 2013 By Donna Biroczky 37 Comments

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**Disclaimer: I was provided two complimentary sets of The Cookie Thing for the purpose of this review, but the opinions and photos are my own.**

First, if you can’t have a cupcake, have a cookie. You can have fun decorating them, you can make them unique for each taste and preference, and with will power, you can exercise portion control by not eating a whole bunch. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it!

In our house, we bake a lot of cookies. A lot. While I still prefer cupcakes, there’s a special place in my heart for a warm chocolate chip cookie, soft and chewy (not a crispy cookie fan) or a melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookie with the most perfect of frostings. We love a good dessert, but we also are non-GMO, organic-as-possible, non-HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup) and ‘know your ingredients, pronounce your ingredients and keep the list short’ in every way that we possibly can, so that means we have to know how to do it ourselves as bakeries with those standards aren’t in every neighborhood. With Thanksgiving coming up quickly, we are getting a jumpstart on the baked goods we’re putting out and starting the desserts first. We also wanted to have some munchies around for the next few days as the kids are out of school and that means extra young mouths to fill without expanding their waist line or killing their immune systems and energy levels. (My kinda holiday, love having an excuse to feed people.)

To that end, the request for the week was sugar cookies. “In Thanksgiving shapes, Mom.”

Noted.

To make things easier, I pulled out my latest kitchen gadget, aptly named The Cookie Thing. The Cookie Thing’s goal is to help you roll out dough in uniform sizes. No more skinny cookies that burn or fat cookies that melt and grow so big as to obscure the shapes. It also works for pie dough or anything else you need to roll out.

The Cookie Thing is the brainchild of Susan Butler as a way to avoid the disappointment that came about when picturing a certain result in mind – beautifully decorated cookies – yet ending up with a mess of dough stuck to a rolling pin, the counter, the table and cookies that didn’t resemble the picture at all. (Keep reading, I offer a significant coupon code for The Cookie Thing!)

The Cookie Thing is made out of solid maple, and the measuring boards – the guides that determine the thickness of the dough – come in four sizes: 1/8”, ¼”, 3/8” and ½”. Use wax paper under and on top of the dough/guides, and you avoid the sticking without having to add a ton of flour that toughens up the dough or discolors it. (Nothing stinks more when making gingerbread men out of a gorgeous, richly colored dough and having it dulled by white spots from the flour.)

the cookie thing

I love the little ribbons!

the cookie thing

This is to give you an idea of the size — everyone has a highlighter for comparison, right? (Can you believe I had no coins handy to use?? It was either the pink highlighter or an In ‘n Out ketchup packet.)

Each year, we have a gingerbread man party, where all the kids and their significant others come to decorate cookies that I’ve made the day before. (It’s an event, with every type of decoration imaginable. More on that later.) We also make our own gingerbread house, and this year, a tree as well, so having evenly rolled out dough is paramount to success. I’m so glad I have The Cookie Thing!

To make our cookies, I used the recipe included, which I’ll share with their permission below. It’s easy and has a wonderfully buttery and lightly sweet flavor.

Cookie Dough

  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 tsp soda
  • 2 tsp cream of tartar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixer until light and fluffy. With a fork, in a separate bowl, beat together the eggs and vanilla. Pour that mixure into the well-beaten sugar and butter and mix well. Add the dry ingredients, which have been mixed together prior, and mix gently. Then pull out The Cookie Thing in the ¼” or 3/8” size and start making cookies! Directions are included but  basically, it’s wax paper, measuring guides, dough, then cover it with wax paper and roll. Success!

The cookies are baked at 350 degrees for 10-14 minutes. I found mine were done at 10 minutes, but I also have an oven that runs about 5 degrees on the high side and I typically adjust to compensate, either in temperature or time.

I know you’ll enjoy using the Cookie Thing as much as I do, and as much as my testers did. I want to thank my models, my great-niece, and my youngest daughter, for their help in showing how easy this tool is for hands of all sizes to use. (I also did a pile of dough and found it to be much easier than the typical rolling pin and mat. High praise, truly, given how many rolling pins and set-ups I have tried.)

the cookie thing

All ready to go!

the cookie thing

“Piece of cake, Aunt Dee!”

using the cookie thing

And there you have it!

using the cookie thing

“My turn, Mom!”

using the cookie thing

Wait, this is so not on our schedule….

sugar cookies

Fast-forward to my niece’s first tray of Thanksgiving-shaped cookies. Perfect thickness!

sugar cookie flower

And her favorite! I can see why, can’t you?

Using the Cookie Thing made these cookies such an enjoyable experience, I’m using it all the time now!

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  1. Ann

    November 26, 2013 at 9:40 am

    What a cool, simple idea! Just wish I had time to bake cookies this year. Maybe I’ll make New Year’s cookies instead….

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    • Dee B

      November 26, 2013 at 11:14 am

      Isn’t it though? I wish I’d thought of it! I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to get all my Thanksgiving baking in, we had a bit of a delay as our hot water chose last night to burst a seam…it’s being repaired right now but it put me behind for the day as we had so much homeowner’s warranty dealies to mess with. A friend of mine is doing a combo Christmas/NYE cookie party, so I think it’s a perfect time to make cookies!

      Reply
  2. Jeanette

    November 26, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    Such a fun idea:)

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    • Dee B

      November 26, 2013 at 8:14 pm

      Simple but ideal! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Winter

    November 26, 2013 at 5:32 pm

    This is really neat! This would help me more than the kids especially with my cutout cookies.

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    • Dee B

      November 26, 2013 at 8:15 pm

      Yeah, I wanted to say the kids appreciate it more than me as dough can be tough sometimes, but who am I kidding? I’ll definitely get more use out of it…but at least they’re going to be more into helping? If you order one, let me know what you think!

      Reply
  4. Jenn

    November 26, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    Very neat!! Looks like you two had a fun time as well. 🙂

    P.S. Your kitchen layout looks almost exactly the same as mine. lol But I love your countertops more than mine.

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    • Dee B

      November 26, 2013 at 8:17 pm

      We did! It as her first time in my new house so I had to keep reminding her that we aren’t formal, all she needs to do is speak up! And thanks! I love the granite, I’ve always wanted them and we were really fortunate they were already here in the house when we bought it. Stuff like new water heaters (today’s latest LOL) make it harder to do the ‘fun’ upgrades!

      Reply
  5. Melinda Dunne

    November 26, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    I NEED this so bad! I am going to check this out because I make a lot of sugar, and gingerbread cookies and can never get the thickness right. I absolutely have to have this!

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    • Dee B

      November 26, 2013 at 8:18 pm

      If you buy it, let me know what you think! Half my gingerbread men every year were the wrong thickness — no more of that!

      Reply
  6. JEnn

    November 26, 2013 at 6:45 pm

    I love the mess free way that you roll out your dough! You are a girl after my own heart! lol! Great recipe!

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    • Dee B

      November 26, 2013 at 8:22 pm

      Thanks! I love it! I hate scraping up dough and wasting so much. This solves the problem and saves me a ton of time!

      Reply
  7. Reina - Soy Mamá en Casa Blog

    November 26, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    Very cool, we love to bake cookies, thanks

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    • Dee B

      November 26, 2013 at 8:19 pm

      Glad you liked reading about it! I am so glad I was able to try it out — I’m totally sold!

      Reply
  8. Shanna

    November 26, 2013 at 7:49 pm

    Great idea! I am going to do that when we make cookies!

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    • Dee B

      November 26, 2013 at 8:23 pm

      Enjoy, Shanna! I only wish this had been around sooner! Susan has come up with a perfect idea!

      Reply
  9. Dee B

    November 26, 2013 at 8:19 pm

    Share some pictures if you order one! I wish I’d run into this years ago. There are a lot of cookies out there missing arms and legs or heads because my dough was too thin! 😉

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  10. Susan Butler

    November 27, 2013 at 4:52 am

    Dee B, thank you! I love seeing families enjoy the parts of the holidays with better results and less stress. I hope you will try my gingerbread recipe on the website, it has been a big hit over the years. Happy Thanksgiving!

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    • Dee B

      November 27, 2013 at 10:45 am

      Susan, you’re very welcome! It was a blast having the girls work on the cookies together and I see many more cookie parties in our future. I will look for your recipe for use at our gingerbread event, thanks for sharing! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, too!

      Reply
  11. Karen @TheMissingNiche.com

    November 27, 2013 at 6:59 am

    Wow, that is so cool! What a neat idea!

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    • Dee B

      November 27, 2013 at 10:52 am

      It’s genius!

      Reply
  12. Garf

    November 27, 2013 at 7:46 am

    I like cookies but unfortunately I don’t like to cook 🙁

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    • Dee B

      November 27, 2013 at 10:54 am

      Then you need to hit up those that do! 😉 Enjoy your Thanksgiving!

      Reply
  13. Bibi @ Bibi's Culinary Journey

    November 27, 2013 at 8:05 am

    That is so cool! I need a set 🙂

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    • Dee B

      November 27, 2013 at 10:55 am

      It’s pretty darn cool! (And ooh, I am so headed over to your midnight mints recipe!!)

      Reply
  14. Jennifer Williams

    November 27, 2013 at 10:39 am

    I love that idea, so simple. Your niece did a great job, love the flower.

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    • Dee B

      November 27, 2013 at 10:56 am

      Thank you! I will pass it along to her, she will be really pleased 🙂 She’s a “movie star” now! Loved having the chance to include her!

      Reply
  15. Kimberly

    November 27, 2013 at 12:51 pm

    How cool is that. I tend to sometimes roll mine out a bit thin and have to roll it on top of itself and try again. This might be a necessity in our cookie baking.

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    • Dee B

      November 30, 2013 at 5:57 pm

      Let me know if you get it, Kimberly! I’d love to see what others use it to make! I’m going to try the gingerbread recipe on the site for our holiday cookies this year.

      Reply
  16. Liz @ A Nut in a Nutshell

    November 27, 2013 at 3:07 pm

    It’s one well thought out baking helper, that’s for sure!

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    • Dee B

      November 30, 2013 at 5:58 pm

      Definitely! I wish I’d thought of it — genius and simple!

      Reply
  17. katherine

    November 27, 2013 at 4:25 pm

    This is such a great idea to make cookies!

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    • Dee B

      November 30, 2013 at 5:58 pm

      And so easy! I don’t know why I wasn’t doing this with the wax paper all along!

      Reply
  18. paula

    November 29, 2013 at 3:02 am

    What a neat tool. When I roll cookie dough it always comes out thick on some places and too thin on others and then the cookies cook unevenly. This looks like the perfect solution

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    • Dee B

      December 1, 2013 at 3:53 pm

      It sure made all the difference for me — I’ve always had the same problem, too. Thanks for posting!

      Reply
  19. Debi@TheSpringMount6Pack

    November 29, 2013 at 8:22 am

    Such a great idea. So simple.

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    • Dee B

      December 1, 2013 at 3:54 pm

      Yes! I’m so glad she followed-through with the great idea by producing it. Cookies are a lot easier now 🙂

      Reply

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