Checkerboard Cookies Failed Attempt

Ugh. I hate Martha Stewart--I don't think she gave away all her secrets away ! If you guys want to check it out : http://www.marthastewart.com/314590/checkerboard-cookies?center=0&gallery=275013&slide=282687

It needed more than 1/2 cup of sugar. Common sense did not kick in for me--2 3/4 cups of flour.. 1/2 cup of sugar?? for cookies??? Obviously it needed more!

Well, I know it's not Martha Stewart's fault in the way it looks. I kept rolling the dough over and over again to be able to layer the chocolate and vanilla dough.

 I guess one thing I am proud of is I learnt how to knead the dough well. After dividing the dough, you need to add the cocoa powder and knead..and knead.. till all the cocoa powder is incorporated.

Kneading the dough with cocoa powder

Then I tried to layer the dough. Holy Crap. It was hard to get them to the right size and the dough kept tearing. Gahhh... I hated it. After placing them layer by layer, and slicing them and wanting to make it to a nice cookie dough, I put it into the fridge. Then, sliced the cookie dough. The poor result is below: 

These look okay after I got fed up and played with the dough.

With the remaining dough, I just rolled them and made it into another cookie. It really didn't matter what I did with the dough because it was pretty bad. Really really bad. 

Pressed Hundreds & Thousands into the dough

I feel like crap now. I thought that I would be able to bake this and feel a bit better...but it blew up in my face. Sigh. 

Well, I am watching Marie Antoinette now.. I see macarons and tea. 

Argh. 

Good Night.