Added more flour than what the recipe calls for to make butter cookies
In the process of baking some butter cookies using the following recipe, I mistakenly added 1/2 cup flour more than what the recipe calls for, and it is now mixed with other ingredients (in a food processor). This happened 3 days ago and I have the semi-batter in an airtight container on the counter since then. I'd like to know if there is any way to save the ingredients. I think I could double the recipe but not sure how it will turn out considering the 48+ hours that it lived in the kitchen. Here's the recipe:
100gr butter
2/3 cup powdered sugar
1/8 tsp vanilla powder
3 egg yolks
2 cups flour
Best Answer
If you added too much flour, you could increase the rest of the ingredients, so that the ratios are more or less equal than in the original recipe.
In your case, in theory, you have about 125% flour, so you would need 125 gram of butter, about 4/5 cup of powdered sugar, 3?20 of vanilla extract and 3.75 egg yolks. However in practice, I think you would be fine if you would leave the other ingredients as is, or if the egg yolks are rather small, add a fourth one. A small increase of sugar would work though.
Nevertheless, as your batter was in the fridge for three days, I would throw it out because of the egg yolks.
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What does adding extra flour to cookies do?
Having too much flour in your cookies will make them tender, and even crumbly. This is apparent in shortbread cookies, which are well known for being dry and soft. What is this? This will often happen when you use a high amount of flour in cookies that have very few wet ingredients, such as eggs and butter.How do you know if you added too much flour to cookies?
That's right\u2014just by looking at the way your dough sticks to the mixer you can tell whether you have too much flour, not enough flour, or too many eggs. In this case you can counter the imbalance straight away, adding more wet ingredients or more flour until you get the consistency you want.Can I add more flour to my cookie dough?
The best way to add substance to your thin cookie dough is by adding more flour. The flour will help decrease the amount of moisture in the dough, creating that perfectly textured batter that will turn into the most succulent and divine cookies you have ever eaten.Does more flour make cookies softer?
The dough needs a little extra flour, which makes it stiffer. The stiff dough spreads less, less liquid evaporates, and the cookies are thicker. Mass also helps cookies stay moist\u2013big dollops of dough make softer and chewier cookies than tiny spoonfuls of dough.3-Ingredient Butter Cookies Recipe
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