it depends on whether the dough is solidly cold throughout from the stamped wreaths. I did all of mine and placed the entirety of the stamped out wreaths in the fridge overnight. the recipe recommends 30 minutes. But I was splitting the tasks. THat combined with the low oven 325 and I was closer to the recipe time standards (I ended up doing 9 and 9) If you skip this the dough is warm already from being worked.

Why the picture does not print with the recipe, the way it used to?

I'd try again. It could be you didn't have sufficient flour, espec if the flour was freshly sifted and possibly had a lot of air. Another thing about flour is that it contains various amounts of moisture. In baking, sometimes one needs slightly less flour and other times slightly more - all depends on how dry the flour is. I personally won't be baking these, pretty as they are, as I prefer biscuits that keep for a long time, such as Italian almond biscuits, as there's only me to eat them nowadays. But if I were catering for a family or entertaining, I'd definitely make them as they look wonderfully festive!

So disappointing when a recipe doesn’t turn out. If I were you,I would have added additional flour, until the dough was not sticky.The recipe calls for 2 cups of flour, but that’s vague. I always weigh my flour. 1 cup of all purpose flour weighs 4.5 oz. Different types of flour weigh differently.I always roll my dough out between sheets of parchment paper.Maybe you had a light weight of flour causing the problem.Good luck next batch.