How to Make Beautiful, Easy Sugar Cookies and Our Best Lemon Bars


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Test cook Dan Souza makes Julia a festive recipe for Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies. Equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top pick for parchment paper, and …

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  1. Molly Lentz
    Molly Lentz says:

    Thanks for simplifying the sugar cookies and just in time! I was just going to search for an easy recipe for my daughter’s 11th birthday party for the girls to make and decorate! Perfect! Thank you!

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  2. Sixpink oneblue
    Sixpink oneblue says:

    If you place the parchment paper on the long side instead of the short sides of the pan, you don't have to trim them to fit. Going short side to short side, yes, but just turn the box, lol. I'm kind of surprised this wasn't figured out. lol.

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  3. J B
    J B says:

    I loved the lemon bars. Usually I use Alice Medrich's Tangy Lemon Bars 2.0 recipe which is pretty similar (this one has extra egg yolks) but I liked the idea of precooking the filling! – That is truly new for me!

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  4. Boo Lena
    Boo Lena says:

    Excited to try that sugar cookie next Christmas. I'm sending the video to my sister for the lemon bar recipe, cuz that's her thing. (I use the Costco parchment paper and love the size and how it performs overall. And, the cost is right.) Love that Dan guy. Just discovered his video explaining onions. Brilliant.

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  5. Alex W.
    Alex W. says:

    i use the length of the parchment roll as the long side of my pan, and put it so the curls face down (like it's hugging the pan)…never had a problem with rolls that way. it's good to hear the performance differences weren't big though, as the Sam's Club brand i use (which wasn't in the running from the look of it) works great ergonomically

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  6. Sidney Mathious
    Sidney Mathious says:

    I love those cookies so much and they look great for the holidays. The lemon bars which Lan made is looking great and I do love lemon desserts and that is what I would love to make for myself. I have to remember to get some cream of tar for the lemon bars I will make since I don't have any. Those lemon bars are looking so delicious and had me hungry while waiting for the finished product and wishing to be there to taste them. I know that Bridget had a hard time waiting for the bars to cool down where she could devour them.

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  7. Cathy Weidman
    Cathy Weidman says:

    I know that’s a lot of extra steps for those lemon bars, but it’s actually a smart idea I hate making lemon bars because I end up wasting most of it because all the edges are lemon scrambled eggs on top of cookie 😝

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  8. Ricky
    Ricky says:

    i have seen countless gifs of cookie decorations, and i always wondered how they were able to get that nice smooth finish with their icing after drawing a border! very informative 🙂

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  9. Hal Grotke
    Hal Grotke says:

    I definitely like tart, lemony lemon bars but the problem I have with most lemon bars at potlucks is that they often taste of raw starch. Precooking the curd is an elegant, simple solution to that problem. I think to add to the tartness I think I will order some citric acid from King Arthur while I am ordering the parchment sheets rather than using cream of tartar.

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  10. Jim Willis
    Jim Willis says:

    Nice to be able to watch again – could you please copy over the captions for the Deaf – (The files are available and paid for since you have them already from the programme being aired on PBS)

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