Cookie Baking

Tips for Cookie Baking

Executive summarized about Tips for Cookie Baking by Freddy Maier

1. How to Make Chewy Cookies
The secret in making any cookie recipes into a soft and chewy cookie is to use Butter flavored Crisco instead of butter. If you want a crispy cookie use butter. Another trick to have chewier cookies is to cut your baking time by about 2 minutes (baked at the temperature stated on the recipe. Your cookies should be baked through but not yet crispy. You can also reduce your oven temperature by 25 degrees and bake for the time stated on the recipe.
2. Baking Soda or Baking Powder ?
Baking powder is alkaline and needs to be mixed with acidic ingredients in order to react. Baking powder is baking soda with an added acidic ingredient, usually cream of tartar. In cookies, baking soda tends to make them spread out more and baking powder tends to make them rise and become puffy or more cake-like. If your recipe calls for baking soda, simply try to reduce it a bit.
3. Make Chilled Dough for Better Results
Make sure the dough is chilled and the baking sheets are cool before putting them in the oven.
4. Beware of nutritional information
You might one day read a recipe that has, for example, 2 sticks of margarine or butter. The nutritional information will read ‘0′ cholesterol. Why so? It is because the nutritional for recipes are calculated using the first ingredient when two ingredients are given. For example, when it says “margarine or butter”, the nutritional are calculated using margarine. If butter were listed first, it would be calculated using butter.
5. Dark or Shiny Pan?
Remember the darker the finish on the pan, the faster the sheet will heat and the longer it will hold the heat. The shinier the pan you use, the longer it will take to heat up. Dark absorbs heat, so your bottoms will be done more quickly then the tops or centers.
6. How many trays in the oven?
Don’t try to crowd too many cookie sheets into your oven at once.. Your best results will be one tray at a time on the middle rack of the oven with plenty of room for the warm air to circulate around the tray.

Cookie Recipes

New Ways to Enjoy Your Favorite Cookie Recipes

Executive Summary by By Danna Vach

- Make ice cream cookie sandwiches by softening your favorite ice cream and pressing once scoop of ice cream between 2 cookies. Chocolate chip cookies work great for this with vanilla or chocolate ice cream.
- Add cookie crumbles to the top of your ice cream or yogurt.
- Try substituting dried cherries or dried cranberries for raisins in cookie recipes such as oatmeal raisin cookies. This works really well with sugar cookies and shortbread cookies.
- Add 1/3 cup of sunflower seeds or mixed nuts to your cookie recipe. Use a shortbread cookie, sugar cookie, or gingerbread cookie instead of a Graham cracker when you makes mores by the campfire.
- Instead making regular round cookies, make cookies of different shapes. Follow the directions for making bar cookies, and instead of cutting the cookies into bars, use cookie cutters to make different shapes.
- Use you favorite cookie as a pie crust.
- Share your cookies with someone new.

Top 3 Reasons Why You Need Cookie Recipes

Executive Summary by Freddy Maier
- Baking cookies is easy, fast and, most important, fun. It is Christmas time and you decide to bake some cookies. We can prepare cookies almost with any ingredient.
- We find great recipes with exact ingredients and quantities. We just have to follow them step by step. The result will be delicious cookies that will enjoy the children…and their parents! That is really easy and fast to prepare!
- You could organize the preparation of those cookies in your kitchen with the children. They love to give a hand and to taste those great cookies afterwards. We can prepare cookies almost with any ingredient. Just name it. You will discover recipes that were used a lot by our grandmothers and you will retrieve the smells of your childhood.
So, now…, imagine taking out the hot cookies that you prepared from the oven.