Keep an extra ball or two of this easy master pie dough in your freezer for great pies any time. Get the recipe at Food & Wine.

Every delectable cookie recipe begins with a perfectly mixed, sweetened dough good enough to eat. Whether you favor chocolate ...

but the scraper is also roughly the same size as a stick of butter, making cutting it cleanly into sticks, and then little cubes, a snap. Oh, and did I mention transferring them to the bowl is way ...