Shortbread.
Cut them out before. That way you can roll out the extra dough and get more cookies, and the cookies will also not crumble that way.
You have to make cookie dough in order to make cookies. Then you place the dough on baking sheets, and bake it until it becomes cookies.
hard dough
They can be made either way depending on the recipe. Typical home-baked peanut butter cookies are made from a fairly firm dough that is first rolled into a ball, then flattened by pressing twice with a fork, making a cross-hatch design on the cookie.
no they are not because cookies are basically made out from dough.
An abaisse is an undercrust of pastry, or a piece of dough flattened by a rolling pin.
Because they are cooked dough.
Rolled cookies are easier to roll and shape when the dough is thoroughly chilled - at least for several hours.
A bench scraper is good for handling particularly sticky doughs, for portioning them out, or for cleaning up excess dough and flour from your countertop after you are finishing working with the dough. There is a good article about them in the related links below.
Packaged dough in the tube has been precooked specially to kill disease so it is safe to eat. When I was young I made cookies from the dough and my mom was worried so she called the company. Note that contamination of the dough "could" occur, whether or not it is baked before you eat it. Baking would eliminate most types of bacteria that could affect the dough.
I have made peanut butter cookies, and i did not refrigerate the dough! The cookies were perfectly fine! they were delicous. The closest i got to refrigerating the cookies was waiting for the oven to pre-heat. They tasted AWESOME anyways.
they come in dough