oh im so mad!! the only recipe that i have used for cut outs is NFSC...it has done me great up until tonight. Im finally starting to get orders...and what happens? the darn things decide to spread on me tonight i have baked goodness knows how many batches just for practice and the were perfect..i go to working on football helmets for an order thats due fri morning and the darn things go nuts on me. and i know that they relly did spread because 1 the have mmf cutouts on them..and 2 i made some practice ones last week and i had a few left over and i can sit the 1st ones on top of the ones i did tonight and see edges the only thing i did different was i made my dough yesterday and kept in fridge until tonight...could that have cause it? and i did pop them in teh freezer before i baked...any body got any suggestions? im still not finished i have footballs still to make and i have to make a ton to take to the farmers market sat...plus baby shower cookies for next week 
i cant have fat baby cookies what should i do? should i try to rebake the helmets w/ a new batch? ooooo golly golly golly
I've baked from thawed out dough before and had no spreading. So I don't think that could be it (although I'm not sure)...
Did you use some of the dough before refridgerating it? Hmmmm... I once added too much sugar and they spread like crazy; could that be a possibility?
Sorry I can't be of more help...
humm i know that i didnt use self rising flour...i dont think that i used too much sugar but i cant rule that out...i did buy new measuring cups and i think that this is the first time that i used them to measure out stuff for my cookies...imma have to check them out.
well i dont know if this would make any difference or not but i just checked my measuring cups against each other and the new one has about 1 tbsp more than the old one which would mean that there were 4 tbsp more sugar in this batch than the batched before. do you think that that is enough to have caused them to spread ?
Tiff --
I have seen several posts about problems with NFSC lately, and many of them have mentioned spreading. It's like a computer virus, first one of us has the problem, next we all have it.
Do what I do, blame it on sunspots. LOL!
Theresa 
lol...is it a full moon? i always have bad luck with a full moon...i just hope that my baby shower cookies do better than these...the football team wont care they will just see cookies and go blank...baby showers on the other had are like weddings...everybody looks at EVERYTHING....
Well, if it is full moon, it's the longest one in history. I have read these comments since at least this past June.
Either that, or it's just your turn to have problems with them.
Don't worry, the baby shower cookies will be better.
Theresa
I made some pirate ship cookies that spread on me VERY bad. I had to use the cutter while they were still hot and recut them after they were baked. The edges weren't as smooth, but I don't think anyone noticed. I also stuck them in the microwave for about 3-5 seconds each...just enough to warm them up a little, and recut. It was a pain and took forever, but they looked much better. I made some cookies tonight, and had no problems with spreading! Guess you never know! I think the ships I made a double batch of dough, and think that may have been the problem. I would try rewarming and recutting them before I baked a whole new batch. Good luck!
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