**Sage 4 Easy Ways to Use a Pin of a Roll Beyond the Bakery**
Baking offers impressive results, but as most people know, it can turn out to be quite challenging when working with dough. The rolling pin just so happens to be one tool indispensable for every baker since one cannot imagine a well-glazed cake or cookie without the required dough layers and the uniform mixing in some ingredients, nor do these dough shapes fit appropriately at times. However, after baking the dough, this is when the rolling pin's application is far from over. In fact, much creativity can still be even in baking with it; the utilization could be beneficial to both the process and end product in multiple ways. Below, we discuss four easy yet very creative ways of using a rolling pin after baking. Such a method may better everything in your baked goods or even beautify your desserts. Whether it is a professional or an amateur, these tips will revolutionize your baking and teach you new ways of thinking in terms of rolling pin design.
1. Rolling Pin for Designer Patterns on Cookies or Pastry
Once your cookies or pastries are baked and cooled, you could add quite decorative touches using your rolling pin that would enhance the finished look of your baked goods even more. The technique is especially handy while the design of shortbread cookies, pie crusts, or puff pastries is being enhanced.
For more complex designs, try a textured rolling pin or an embossed rolling pin. They can come in florals, geometric shapes, or even custom designs. Simply roll the pin gently over the surface of your cooled baked goods to press the pattern into the surface. The result is a delicately done decoration that does not require much effort.
You could always design your own using lace or textured fabric as a wrapping on a smooth rolling pin, or use small stamps. That way is also pretty good when you are adding embellishments to your cakes, cookies, or even crackers.
### 2. Smoothing and Shaping Left Over Dough Using the Rolling Pin
Typically, once you have completed your baking project, you're left with leftover dough that you can use to make something else: pie dough, cookie dough, or bread dough. And instead of wasting that, a rolling pin can really be the best means of rolling that out into something new and tasty or something as simple as an addition to your recipes. For instance, you can spread out leftover pie dough and cut forms such as leaves, hearts, and stars that you can use to decorate your pie or pastry.
You can also create a quick batch of cinnamon rolls or a small batch of cookies by rolling the leftover dough out flat, adding cinnamon sugar, and rolling it back up. Then, simply cut the log into small rounds and bake them. This not only saves the extra dough but also turns it into something delicious and new without any additional time-consuming effort.
Another wonderful thing to do with leftover dough is to make crackers or flatbreads. Roll out your dough, cut into strips or shapes, and bake until crispy and you have a tasty snack. You would be surprised how often a rolling pin is handy when you need to flatten dough for an empanada or hand pie and a whole host of other goodies that you can make from leftovers of your original baking project.
3. **Rolling Pin for Crushing Ingredients**
There's another brilliant way of putting your rolling pin to good use after baking. Crush or pound ingredients with it for other recipes. You always have crushed nuts, crushed crackers, or even candy crushed in the process of baking. You wouldn't want an appliance for this like a food processor, so crushing, pounding ingredients is very simple and efficient with the rolling pin.
For instance, when you want to crush graham crackers to make the crust for a pie or a base for a cheesecake, you place the crackers in a plastic bag or between two pieces of parchment paper; roll the pin over them. You easily control the pressure by using it to your advantage based on the size of the crumbs you need. This is also useful when you have to grind nuts like almonds or walnuts to be added to cakes or used as toppings for pastries. With the rolling pin, you can crush other things like hard candy or spices like peppercorns and cardamom pods by tapping or rolling the pin over your ingredients breaks them down to size while keeping cleanup to a minimum. This simple process is enormously advantageous when you have a quick, no-fuss recipe or when you don't have any specialized crushing tool handy.
### 4. **Using a Rolling Pin: Getting Exactly the Right Cuts/Strips**
Most of you wouldn't think of rolling as an activity that's valuable even for your baking when it's finished, for clean cutting and portioning.
Let's take an example. Then you will find, after baking a pan of brownies or bars that rolling with your rolling pin will help give portions cut nicely to equal measure. Once your baked good has cooled, simply place a sheet of parchment paper over it and roll the pin over the surface to make defined lines, as you will be cutting it into squares or rectangles. You can also use the rolling pin to help portion dough evenly before baking, thus achieving uniform shapes and sizes. This is especially true for cookies, scones, or biscuits, which require uniformity in size and shape. For a more advanced technique, roll out your dough, use a rolling pin to create marks as guides, and then use a sharp knife or cookie cutter to cut out your treats.
Another fantastic use of the rolling pin when portioning is making homemade dumplings, ravioli, or gyoza. Roll out the dough, then mark exact sizes using the pin on top by lightly rolling across the dough with a ruler or measuring tape on the side. You will find that you'll produce a batch of uniform-sized pieces and get perfectly cooked results without relying on guesswork.
Baking is an art form. So getting the right tool in should give you professional results. A tool, like a rolling pin, used only for the dough preparation phase of your baking may come into handy multiple times after you finish baking. Whether to create some designs on your cakes, use up the remaining dough, crush some ingredients, or even make exact cuts, a rolling pin is very functional and can provide some final touches to your baking.
Well, think outside the box in this very act of rolling that rolling past baking; add new dimensions to your creations. These are but just four easy ways in. The next time you will bake, do remember, the humble contribution of this rolling pin was in the flattening of dough as it was not enough to merely be brought into shape especially post-baking.
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