Can I salvage cookie dough made with whole eggs instead of yolks?
I was making the dough for cookies and was supposed to add just 2 egg yolks and I added 2 whole eggs. What was supposed to form a ball just made a really thick batter. So, do I have to start over or is there a way I can fix this?
Recipe called for 4 cups of flour, 2 cups of softened butter, 1 pint of sour cream and 2 egg yolks. I put in two whole eggs. It's in the refrigerator chilling in hopes of tightening it up.
They were supposed to be pinwheel cookies that you put a bit of jelly in the center. And then finish off with powder sugar. If there is no salvaging the consistency of the cookies to form these pinwheels, would it work if I make them into balls and then finish them off with powdered sugar so as to not waste this batch and start over to make the pinwheels with just the yolks?
Best Answer
If nothing else, the egg whites have added additional liquid to your dough, so maybe you can compensate by adding more flour.
Try taking a small portion of your "batter" and add a little flour to it. See if that brings it closer to the consistency you expected. If you can determine how much flour is needed to fix just a small amount of the mix, then you can apply it to the whole thing.
If it doesn't work, you'll still have your Plan-B to fall back on.
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Can I use whole eggs instead of egg yolks?
When you use whole eggs in a recipe, you get some of the best properties of both the yolk and the white. While whole eggs aren't quite as good as straight yolks at creating an emulsion, they are still excellent binding agents, especially in cakes, cookies, and other baked goods.Can you put whole egg in cookie dough?
They're not going to make a cookie fluffy. and generally in cookies, flour contributes to a cake-like texture. Whole eggs generally make a cookie chewier.What happens if you use whole eggs instead of egg yolks in cookies?
Whole eggs do a bit of both. Based on this understanding of what the different parts do, our guess is that substituting a whole egg with two yolks would give us a very tender and moist cookie with a cake-like structure. Because we lose the proteins in the whites, the cookie would likely be crumbly.What does a whole egg do to cookies?
To create cookies, you typically use whole eggs and their proteins for flavor, leavening, structure, and color. Eggs promote puffiness and spreading in cookies, while also holding the cookie together during baking.THE FUNCTION OF EGGS IN BAKING | whole eggs, egg whites, egg yolks
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