O.k I Know This Has Been Asked Before Please Help
Baking By jackie64 Updated 21 May 2006 , 12:06am by playingwithsugar
Ive got my icing and how to flood down , and I refrigerate my cookie dough, roll it out cold, put cookies back into freezer while others are baking but my shapes still are not perfect some will turn out right while others will spread out some . What am I doing wrong. 
Could it be the recipe Im using?
Based on what you told us, I'd guess that it could be your recipe.
Can you post the recipe you're using?
If your recipe has too much baking soda or baking powder in it, that can make the cookies puff up and lose their shape. THere are probably other things that can make them do that also.
I use the no-fail recipe that's posted here, and my cookeis keep their shape pretty well as long as they're very cold when I put them in the oven.
hth!
Laura.
Is your dough cold enough? Warm dough, especially with a butter base, will spread like weeds in the oven
Also, I have found that a technique called Docking helps, especially with cookies that you do not want to spread.
Docking is what they do to shortbread and puff pastry to keep it from puffing up too much. You take a fork and poke holes about every half inch, and that releases the steam that builds up inside, but still allows the pastry or cookie to bake flaky and crisp.
Theresa 
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