When baking cookies, the type of sugar you use can help decide whether your batch becomes a botch. Here are some expert tips ...

For the cookies: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the butter, granulated sugar, and orange ... about 1/4 inch thick and cut out as many cookies as you ...

For lebkuchen, former Times cooking columnist Ben Mims — who recently wrote the cookie book “Crumbs,” on our list of the best cookbooks ... are lemony gingerbread cutouts with lemon zest ...

Just pull out the cutouts, bake and decorate. Related: How to Make Sugar Cookies 10x Better, According to the 'King of Cookie Week' • Keep the shapes simple. Ina is all about elegant simplicity ...