Bake the Perfect Cookie
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David
List of Ingredients
10 Tips to Help You Bake the Perfect Cookie from David Recipe
Baking cookies is a great treat for children and adults. We've put
together a few tips to help make sure your cookies bake perfectly
each and every time you make them. I wish you success with each
sheet of cookies you bake!
1. Use shiny cookie sheets.
You could even cover dark cookie sheets with aluminum foil. The
reflective quality of the pan insures even baking and browning of
your cookies. With the right cookie sheet, you will produce
perfectly browned cookies each time you bake.
2. Use a spoon or other measuring device to measure out drop cookies.
Making sure your cookie dough is evenly divided is essential. Your
cookies will bake more evenly during their cooking time. If your
cookies are different sizes, they will require different cooking
times. You will end up with some underdone and some overdone
cookies. We definitely wouldn't want that to happen!
3. Chill dough thoroughly if you are rolling out cookies.
By making sure that the dough has been chilled completely, the dough
will be much easier to work with during rolling and cutting.
4. Monitor the baking time of you cookies closely.
Remove your cookies from the oven when they still look a little
underdone in their centers. They will finish cooking on the cookie
sheets.
5. Use the correct fat for your cookies.
If the recipe calls for butter, use butter. Butter happens to be my
personal favorite for baking cookies! I never use margarine. If
the recipe calls for shortening, I will use butter flavored. Butter
and shortening provide the bonding fate that keeps our cookies from
spreading too thin while cooking. If you use margarine when it
calls for butter, your cookies may be thinner and may cook too
quickly for optimum taste benefits.
6. Rotate your cookies halfway through the baking time.
Often ovens cook faster towards the rear of the oven. Rotating the
cookies insures even baking of your wonderful treats. If you are
cooking more than one sheet of cookies at a time, make sure you
switch top and bottom sheets halfway through baking time also.
7. Always use large eggs.
This is the standard size egg used for developing cookie recipes.
Your cookies will mix perfectly by using the correct size eggs.
8. Measure all of your ingredients carefully.
Don't use heaping cups of flour or sugar. Make sure you use a flat
surface to level all dry measured ingredients. Measure your liquid
ingredients carefully also or else you might end up with very dry or
very runny cookie dough.
9. Preheat your oven to the correct temperature.
Do this before you place your cookies in the oven. This will make
sure your cookies will cook properly to become the perfect cookies!
10. Have Fun!
Baking cookies is a wonderful tradition in homes today. Have fun
while you are making them, and the smiles will be even bigger when
you eat them! Having fun and smiling makes everything taste better!
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