Although chef Paul Cunningham knows his way around a kitchen (check out his epic Danish Christmas Feast for friends), when it comes to baking cookies, he defers to his mother-in-law, Kitty Læby, who's been making her Christmas cookies for more than 50 years. Her simple but sublime kager—some flavored minimally with butter and sugar, others with spices and nuts—are all about precision.
Use a Kitchen Scale
Get Uniform Dough with Rolling Pin Bands
Pipe with a Cookie Press
Control the Heat with a Great Oven
Wolf Built-in Ovens
Many directions for baking cookies and cakes will advise you to rotate your baking pan or sheet halfway through cooking, a directive that attempts to correct uneven heating in ovens. In the Saveur Test Kitchen, we bake breads, cookies, cakes, and pies in our trusted Wolf oven, no rotating necessary.
Wolf Built-in Ovens, starting at $4,300 at subzero-wolf.com
