What is the best recipes for using cookie cutters?

Every time I have used my cookie cutters they never hold their shape. What is the best recipes for making cookies when using cookie cutters? thanks. What is the best recipes for using cookie cutters?
Are you chilling the dough before you cut it? Here''s a recipe I like from the Food Network website.





Cookie Cutter Roll Cookies





2/3 cup butter


1 cup granulated sugar


2 eggs


1/4 cup milk


1 teaspoon baking soda


1 teaspoon vanilla


1/4 teaspoon salt


4 cups all-purpose flour


Decorating Frosting, recipe follows





Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs. Dissolve soda in milk and add. Add vanilla. Fold in flour and salt slowly. Chill dough for half an hour. Roll to around 1/8 to 1/16-inch thick. Dip cookie cutter in flour before each cutting. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool and frost





DECORATING FROSTING:


2 cups confectioners sugar, sifted


1 teaspoon butter (melted)


1/2 teaspoon vanilla


Milk or cream to moisten





Blend butter and sugar. Add the vanilla and then the milk a little at a time until you have a stiff mixture to be used for decorating. To use as frosting, add a few more drops of milk and spread over cookie with a knife. What is the best recipes for using cookie cutters?
Ma Ma's Sugar Cookies --





';This is a very easy recipe that I have used for years. My kids love to help and my five year old can do it all. Great way to get kids to cook.';











INGREDIENTS


1/2 cup butter flavored shortening


1 cup white sugar


2 eggs


1 teaspoon vanilla extract


2 cups self-rising flour











DIRECTIONS


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).


In a medium bowl, cream together the shortening and sugar. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. stir in the self-rising flour to form a dough. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/4 inch in thickness. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Place cookies 1 1/2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets.


Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
What works for me is a basic sugar cookie dough, there is one on the crisco shortening package. Another recipe may be gingerbread.





My cookies lose there shape if I bake them too long, or if my oven is too hot. So you may need to adjust oven temp or bake them the shortest time possible without them being undercooked.





Good Luck!
try www.allrecipes.com - great web-site, including tutorials etc


good luck!