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Q: Perhaps I'm just the stupidest person in the world, but I have this difficulty in making cookies.Normally it's that I add too much of one ingridient, or too little of another, or that I set the oven to the wrong time. My whole family is mad, because we were having a party, and Mom told me to make cookies, except they were quite horrible, and one guest threw-up. Is there anything I can do to fix this problematic situation!
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That's hard for me to imagine, because my cookies are always very perfect.
If you're making something that calls for butter and sugar, mix the butter and sugar together to make a creamy sugary paste.
Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl all at once (carefully! Read everything you do! Do it in order!) and THEN add the wet ingredients.
Things like eggs, baking powder, and baking soda are for making baked goods puff up and stay fluffy. Crisco, shortening, butter and oil make things heavy and fattening. The more grease in your cookies, the thicker they will be.
"Drop cookies" go on the sheet in spoonfuls. If the batter is runny or won't stay in spoonfuls, you've made pancakes instead of cookies--add more flour. If the batter is crumbly and won't stick together, add a FEW drops (literally, a small spoonful) of water and mix until it's sticky and thick.
Always test your cookie dough before you bake it. :)
Most cookies go in the oven for about nine minutes--9 to 11 usually gets it. When they are no longer wet-looking in the middle, they're done. Let them cool on a baking rack where air can get underneath.
If all else fails, run like hell to the store and buy something from the bakery there. They're usually sort of tasteless and sugary, but they're better than Disaster Cookies.
Last of all, the recipe for chocolate chip cookies on the back of the chocolate chip bag is always the best one in existance.
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Incredible advice. Thanks so much!
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People have been coming to me for advice so long, I might as well do this all in one spot. I watch a lot of unfathomable Japanese TV and drink a lot of coffee. I'm a freshly-hatched Illustration major, formerly trapped & dying in the American South, now busily teaching phrases to all of Nagoya Japan. I'm always on the lookout for more video games and sushi.
I have lots of interesting pets. Wanna see my beetle?
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Website: Gender: Female Location: America, now Nagoya Occupation: Eigo sensei/Illustrator Age: 22 AIM: Yahoo: Member Since: December 5, 2003 Answers: 255 Last Update: October 11, 2008 Visitors: 23026
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