My Top Ten Tips For Making The Perfect Cookie
Shown here is my favorite cookie recipe
My first few cookie baking experiments left me with a dry, crumbly and hard cookie. Homemade from scratch cookies are so yummy I had to figure out how to make them right. Here are a few tips I have picked up along the way for making sure my cookies come out soft and chewy every time!
::Butter, baby
Doesn’t butter make almost anything tastes good? Don’t use margarine, low fat, whipped or shortening in your cookies. A good ol’ stick of butter is the only kind you should use. Oh, and make that unsalted butter too
::Cream the butter and sugar
This is a necessary step! Make sure your butter is softened, not melted, and cream until light and fluffy
::The Flour
Make sure you are using all purpose flour. And make sure you are measuring it right too. Over or under measuring will change your cookie dramatically
::Mix Dry Ingredients
Before adding your dry ingredients to your wet mixture, combine your dry ingredients in a separate bow. This ensures that everything is evenly mixed and you don’t end up with a lump of baking powder in one cookie.
::Don’t over mix
Once you add the dry ingredients, mix until just blended. Over mixing makes one tough cookie!
::Chill the Dough
Don’t know why, but it works! Make sure you keep it chilled in between batches also
::Use a Baking Stone
It makes perfect cookies every time
::Or use a cookie sheet with parchment paper
If you don’t have a baking stone, use parchment paper on your cookie sheet. It makes the bottoms of the cookie nice and smooth and eliminates the need for oiling the pan (which can make the cookies spread too much and over brown on the bottom)
::Use an Ice Cream Scoop
You will get perfectly portioned cookies that cook evenly and look great!
::Take out 5-10 minutes early
I think this is the best way to have soft cookies. Under cooking slightly makes the cookie soft. Remember that they continue to cook a little even after taking them out of the oven. My rule of thumb is as soon as I can smell them, they come out, even if the middle is slightly undone. Let sit in the pan for a few minutes, and then cool on a wire rack .
There you have it, some simple tips for yummy cookies! My last tip: don’t eat them all in one sitting. You’ll get a belly ache. Ask me how I know ! Check out one of my very favorite tried and true cookie recipes : Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies.
This post is linked to Kitchen Tip Tuesday, Top Ten Tuesday, and Blissfully Domestic, Tasty Tuesday, and Tempt My Tummy Tuesday
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I definitely needed this! I love homemade cookies–but I’m NOT a cookie maker! I’ve made perfect cookies once and I think that was a fluke. I get easily distracted, and while I never use a timer when I cook, I learned I must use it when making cookies or I burnt the tarnation out of them.
My paitence is also nonexistent, so I’ve never chilled my dough. I’ll try that next time. Thanks! : )
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thnx for the great tips!!
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Totally agree on the under-cooking … makes them perfect!! Reading this, I’m not sure if I usually mix the dry ingredients b4 adding the wet ones … but your reason makes perfect sense!!! Thanks for the tip … and all of them!!
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good tips….our friends just brought my husband over 46 homemade chocolate chip cookies for his 46th birthday and they are dry and crumbly. I don’t really enjoy them. I think that they could have used these tips. Thanks for sharing and I’m going to remember them myself.
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I LOVE creamed butter and sugar. So not healthy, but I can’t help dipping in.
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These sound like some great tips, and I agree, real butter makes baking much better!
Ginger
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I am not a baker, but I would like to try that cookie recipe! I’ll print our your tips when I make them.
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I have the hardest time with cookies. Thank you for this!
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thanks for the tips!
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I’ve never thought to use an ice cream scoop; thanks for the tip. Also, I take my cookies out early, too, and my cookies are always soft and “perfect” as the husband would say.
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These are great tips. I make cookies often and pretty much follow these tips. I don’t have a baking stone, but I have been really wanting to get one. I believe it would be worth my investment if I would just buy it. Thanks for sharing these tips and the recipe. Looks and sounds yummy!!
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Okay, do you have to smoosh the cookies, because I tend to but I am not sure if I should. My cookies come out about half of the time, so I will be using your tips.
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I second the baking stone. It’s a miracle worker! So, where are those cookies now? I’m hungry!!
(thanks for linking up to the Top Ten!)
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Great post! absolutely agree on the butter and the baking stone. No other way to make cookies!
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I learned about the parchment paper during Christmas when I was making gingerbread men & women. I always thought it would burn. The best idea I ever got. Thank you for all the other tips! I plan to make more “from scratch” cookies this Christmas.
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If you don’t mind, can I add something I use in my choc. chip cookie recipe? I add a small box of pudding mix- it’ll make your cookies chewy, and they’ll stay that way for alot longer too.
Just thought I’d share. Thanks!
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Great tips – I certainly don’t do all of those!!
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oh my friend – you know I LOVE to make cookies. These are the tips I follow and I just LOVE my baking stones. They have saved many an otherwise burnt cookie batch.
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Now I want cookies! Thanks for the tips
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Great tips – going to save this for future reference!
Thanks
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