INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Before you begin cooking, make sure that you have the following ingredients: 1 cup butter, 2 cups granulated sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 5 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, teaspoon salt, cup 2% milk. This recipe should make about eight dozen cookies. Make sure that the butter is room temperature. Turn on the oven and set it to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (177 degrees Celsius). If the oven is too hot or too cold, you will not get the crispy texture you desire. In a large bowl, mix the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Once the butter is creamed, mix in the eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla. This should only take a few minutes with a stand mixer or handheld mixer. Make sure that the butter is softened but not melted. In small bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Once they are thoroughly mixed, add a little of it to the butter mix. Alternate adding the flour mix and the milk until fully incorporated. Remember to mix slowly at first and speed up as the dough constitutes. Leave the dough in the mixing bowl and cover it with a cloth or plastic wrap. Place it in the refrigerator for 15 to 30 minutes, or until it is easily malleable. The dough should be relatively dense. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and place it on a floured surface. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to a 1/8th inch thickness. Use cookie cutters to cut out the shapes you want. Getting the right thickness when you roll out the dough will help you get a crispier cookie. Grease a baking sheet or cover it in parchment paper. Then place the cut out cookies about two inches apart on the sheets. If the cookies are too close together, they will melt to each other. Plus the edges might not get crispy. Place the cookies in the oven for about 10 minutes or until the edges are light brown. Cooking time may vary depending on taste and oven. Once baked, remove the cookies from the oven and leave them on the sheets to cool. This will ensure that they get nice and crispy. Once they have cooled, you can also ice the sugar cookies. Waiting until the cookies are cool with ensure that your icing does not melt and run.

SUMMARY: Gather your ingredients. Preheat the oven. Cream the butter and sugar. Mix your flour mixture. Refrigerate the dough. Shape the cookies. Place the cookies on a baking sheet. Bake the cookies. Cool the cookies. Finished.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Avoid wilted or yellowing broccoli rabe and broccoli rabe that has any dark patches or slime. If necessary, drain the water and repeat the process until the broccoli rabe is free of dirt. Do not wash broccoli rabe until just before you are ready to use it to avoid mold and decay. You do not need to peel the stems of broccoli rabe. If desired, you can cut the stems off the broccoli rabe up to the bottom of the leaf. Stems can be chopped and cooked a few minutes longer than the leaves. Stems of broccoli rabe can also be discarded and only the leaves and buds prepared and eaten.

SUMMARY: Look for broccoli rabe that has crisp, bright green leaves. Rinse the broccoli rabe in a bowl of cold water. Cut off the tough ends of the broccoli rabe stems.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: This trick isn't as much about levitating an actual coin as it is about the illusion of making the coin invisible, then making it reappear. To begin the trick, you will need to make the coin disappear from your hand. It's easier to learn with a larger coin like a half-dollar, but you can use a quarter or other similarly large coin. Using a finger palm vanish, pretend to transfer the coin from one hand to the other. The finger palm works like a regular palm, except you keep the coin in place with your two middle fingers. Hold the coin in place between your fingers and the first joints closest to your palm. This part of the trick is similar to a French Drop where you pretend to transfer the coin from one hand to the other while palming the coin in your original hand. While finger palming the coin, bring your empty hand up toward your eye level while you lower the hand with the coin. Rub your fingers together with your empty hand to make it look like you've made the coin "vanish". However, describe to your audience that you've simply made the coin invisible. Open your hand to reveal the invisible coin. Here, you can explain how in order to levitate the coin, you have to make it invisible so that it no longer weighs too much to float. Pretend to pick up the coin as if it were there. The next few parts of this trick will require you to be convincing with your space object work. Also note that you are picking up the invisible coin with the hand that is actually holding the coin. Keep your coin in finger palm position, and always angle your hand so the audience can't see the actual coin. Before doing this trick, practice actually picking up your real coin. Notice how the weight feels in your hand, how your fingers are positioned, and how your hand moves. Pretend as though you were picking up a coin now. Remember what it looked like when you actually picked up a coin. Don't pinch your fingers together. Even though a coin is thin, there would still be a tiny amount of space in between your fingers when holding one. Remember the weight of the coin as well. Place the invisible coin in the air and let go. Describe that you can simply put the invisible coin in the air where it will hang until you need it. Keep in mind when you do this that you will be finger palming the actual coin. As you place the coin to hang in the air, angle your hand so your audience can see the open palm, but keep the coin covered by holding it in between your fingers. Once you've let the invisible hanging coin part of the trick settle in, grab the coin out of the air with your empty hand. Take the invisible coin, paying attention to your space object work, with the hand that you're not palming the coin in. Raise the hand with the real coin in it up to meet your empty hand. As you do this, keep the coin in your finger palm but tilt your hand just enough so the audience can see that your palm is empty. Describe that whenever you need the coin back, all you have to do is make it reappear. As you place the invisible coin into the palm of the hand that is holding the actual coin, begin to curl your fingers over. As you begin to make a fist, let the coin drop out of the finger palm. It will fall over the index finger of your other hand. With your thumb, pinch the coin in between your thumb and forefinger as your other hand curls around into a fist. You will now be holding the coin in the same hand that you used to grab the invisible coin out of the air with. Open your hand to reveal that the coin has become visible again.

SUMMARY:
Make the coin "vanish". Pick up the invisible coin to levitate it. Grab the invisible coin. Make the coin reappear.