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For the past two years, students and staff from Johnson & Wales University have come to my kitchen to help make the dough for more than 750 cookies for my December Drop In & Decorate® party.
It's a lot of dough to be rolled out, by lots of different people.
The problem: how to get all of the dough to be a uniform thickness, so all the cookies will (a) bake in the same amount of time, and (b) be sturdy enough to hold lots of icing?
The solution: rolling pin bands!
Two color-coded rubber bands slip onto opposite ends of your rolling pin (any standard size/shape of rolling pin) to provide 1/16", 1/8", 1/4" or 3/8" thickness of dough. I use the 1/4" size (green) for our sugar cookies.
A set of 4 pair of rolling pin bands costs $6.95 - 8.95, and is available here, here and here, or at your local baking supply store.
If you're planning an event and will enlist several bakers to make cookies at home, give each one a set of the same size rolling pin bands along with the same sugar cookie recipe, and all of the cookies will be exactly the same.
Brilliant!
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