Basketweave Cookies

"These cookies totally remind me of a basket with the offsetting vanilla and chocolate pieces. Fair warning – these Basketweave Cookies do take a bit of advance planning and then some strategic measuring and cutting…but the effort is well worth it! Folks are sure to do a double-take when they see a plate of these cookies come out of the kitchen! You’ll notice that the dough gets refrigerated/frozen a number of times throughout this recipe. The point of this is two-fold. First, the dough needs to be cold before baking. If the dough is too warm, the cookies will expand too much and lose their ‘basketweave’ look. They’ll still be delicious to eat, but the visual appeal will be gone. Second, you’ll be slicing this dough into thin pieces as you construct (i.e. weave) these cookies. Very cold dough is much easier to slice than warm dough."