If you do not have bread flour on hand, you can use an equal amount of all-purpose flour instead.




Do not over-mix your cookie dough!




I do not recommend skipping the chill time. Freezing the cookie dough ensures that they do not spread too much in the oven.




Always lean toward slightly under-baking your cookies, as they will bake slightly more while they cool on the baking sheet.




To get perfectly round cookies, use a large round cookie or biscuit cutter to round out each cookie immediately after they come out of the oven.




The only downfall to using bread flour, is that the cookies do not stay soft for more than a day or so. To avoid this, you can store a piece of bread with the cookies to help them maintain their softness. Otherwise, freezing the cookie dough and baking one or two whenever you would like them is always great idea!