Category "cookies"

How can I save crumbly cookie dough?

I found a recipe online that required making cookie dough from scratch and then wrapping the cookie dough in wax paper and refrigerating for 2 hours. I made the

What side effects should I expect by replacing cake flour with chickpea flour in all cookie recipes?

Last time I replaced maida with chickpea flour (keeping all other ingredients and their quantities same) in carrot cupcakes. The only difference I noted was in

Can I replace rolled oats with instant oats in a cookie recipe?

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/healthy-banana-cookies/ That recipe asks for rolled oats. I don't have them. Can I replace them with these instant oats? How much

How to adjust the ingredients when recipe asks for salted peanuts and unsalted butter while I have the opposite?

The recipe is for cookies. Recipe asks for salted peanuts and unsalted butter while I have the unsalted peanuts and salted butter. Nutralite Table spread: http

How should I deal with "thawed frozen puff pastry"?

A cookie recipe asks for: 14 ounces good-quality thawed frozen puff pastry, such as Dufour So, does puff pastry mean this? http://nishamadhulika.com/bakin

What should be understood by "refrigerate until firm, 2 hours or overnight"?

The cookie recipe asks for: 1½ cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 1¼ teaspoons ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teas

Looking for a way to make a cone shaped cookie

I am trying to find a way to make a cross between waffle cone and fairy gingerbread. You might call it gingerbread flavored Krumkake or Pizelle. And if possib

Saving sanding sugar

I make sanding sugar cut out cookies often. I sometimes have excess sugar left on the cookie sheets after baking. Could this excess sugar be saved and reused fo

What is the purpose of creaming butter with sugar in cookie recipes?

I got distracted while assembling the dry ingredients for a cookie recipe and added the sugars, which were supposed to be creamed with the butter first. Fortuna

How to salvage a cookie dough that is too sweet?

I just baked the first batch of cookies and I found them to be too sweet to my liking. The remaining dough is sitting in the fridge right now and I was wonderi

In what proportion should the given ingredients be combined to form a cookie?

These ingredients were listed on a cookie pack available in the market. I would like to know what combinations of the following ingredients can be used to produ

Why do Pocky and other "stick" biscuits have this distinct burn pattern?

This is Pocky: (much larger image) As you can see, the part that is not covered in chocolate has burn marks that form a distinct pattern that is also common

I use 1/2 cup shortening and 1/2 cup butter in baking chocolate chips cookies but they always fall flat

Unless I put pecans in my chocolate chip cookies they always fall flat when I take them out of the oven. What do I need to do for them to stand up.

Pecan Sandies-Baking powder in the recipe vs. recipe without a leavening agent?

When my children were young, we baked cookies every weekend. One of their favorites was 'Pecan Sandies' without the pecans. The ingredients were: 1)butter, 2)su

Stick wafer sticks to mudcake

How can I stick chocolate wafer sticks like this: on a mudcake to get this result:

How do I make "thick cooked rhubarb"

I'm looking at a 1960's Betty Crocker cookie recipe that calls for "1 cup thick cooked rhubarb". What sort of preparation does this imply? Baking? Stewing? Shou

Can pressed cookies be made without creaming butter and sugar?

Is it possible to make a cookie dough for pressing without having to cream butter and sugar (my pet hate)?

Gritty texture in cookies

I made this recipe last weekend and while it came out very tasty, there was the occasional gritty texture/crunch similar to sand at the beach getting in your mo

My cookies are turning out like cakes

This is the basic recipe I used (taken from http://www.yuppiechef.com/spatula/the-science-behind-chocolate-chip-cookies/): 8 oz (about 225g) unsalted butter 1

How to substitute butter with combination of butter and shortening in cookie/biscuit making?

Sometimes when I bake cookies, they either come out too soft or they become rock hard. I have read somewhere that baking cookies with butter makes is spreadable