While there's something to be said for the fun of rolling up your sleeves and spending an hour or two baking batch upon batch ...

Instead of slicing off chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough and setting the pieces onto a tray, take the extra effort to ...

Roll the dough out to a 0.5cm/¼in thickness on lightly ... Take a few limbs and heads off the gingerbread man for added gore. Place the cookies onto the baking tray, leaving a gap between them ...

Roll the dough into a wide sausage shape and wrap in the cling film, twisting the ends to seal. Each sausage will make nine large cookies (but you can roll them smaller and make more). The dough ...

You also need cocoa powder or another flavoring ingredient, as well as powdered sugar to roll the cookie dough balls in. As the cookies bake, the powdered sugar layer will crack open to reveal the ...