Why Do My Slice and Bake Cookie Patterns Always Smear

Why Do My Slice and Bake Cookie Patterns Always Smear

You’ve done it. You spent hours carefully stacking alternating strips of vanilla and chocolate dough, pressing them into a perfect, geometric log. You have visions of crisp, sharp checkerboard cookies dancing in your head. You slice, you bake, and you pull out… a tray of blurry, indistinct blobs. The sharp lines have bled into each other, and your beautiful design looks like a watercolor painting left out in the rain.