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Simple Steps for Making Drop Cookies

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Step 7 - Another Choice for Shaping the Dough

Pre-flattened cookies allow for most of the cookies to look the same.

Sometimes flattened cookies are desired.

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Another option for cookie shapes is to flatten the dough balls. I like to use a flat-bottomed glass dipped first in sugar or cinnamon to flatten the cookies.

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