my easter cookies 🌸

if anyone knows why the checkers look like that pls lmk 😩 im thinking it’s dry dough and/or not chilling long enough before slicing and/or dull knife??

i used black cocoa for the chocolate dough. loved the color!! and i tried a whitener in the sugar cookie dough for the first time – that really helped w the colors since the starting point wasn’t so yellow. it’s a nutella buttercream in between 😋