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Stars Pappardelle

Woman pulling a sheet of pasta with starshaped cutouts through a pasta roller.
Photo by Brittany Wright

I’ve used various types of cutters to make shapes in pasta, and when feasible I prefer to use plunger-style cutters because they really save the tips of my fingers from burning clean off after I’ve cut out about two hundred of the same shape. If you have only a metal cookie cutter, it will certainly work, but plunger cutters can be found inexpensively at most cooking or craft stores as well as online. As with all the patterns in this book, you don’t need to cut the finished star sheets into pappardelle. Farfalle, lasagne sheets, or any other noodles on the larger side would also showcase this pattern well.

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