How does amount of flour affect cookies?
What will happen to my chocolate chip cookies if I add more or less flour than the recipe calls for?
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A general answer, because a concise answer would need an entire recipe.
(all ratios that follow are by weight not volume measures)
Flour gives the cookie structure. The commonly followed ratio is:
Cookie dough = 3 parts flour, 2 parts fat, 1 part sugar
That 3:2:1 ratio results in the most common cookie texture.
Adding more flour give you a hard cookie like: ginger snaps, short bread, etc.
Reducing the flour, like a 1:1:1 flour-fat-sugar will give a drop cookie and often chewy.
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Much like in bread, flour helps the cookie to rise (as well as keep certain shapes). This means that more flour will result in more rise, which is not always optimal if you want light, crisp cookies. On the other hand, low amounts of flour will commonly result in crisp, thin cookies.What happens if u add too much flour to cookies?
Hypothesis: More flour in the Snickerdoodle cookie recipe would certainly yield a thicker, fluffier cookie because more flour meant less spread. However, I also was nervous that more flour would lead to less desirable taste because too much flour diminishes the gloriousness of the Snickerdoodle.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.How much flour should I add to cookies?
The amount of flour used should be about two times the amount of fat. To determine how much flour to use, start with equal amounts of flour and fat and then increase the amount of flour until the dough is slightly tacky. It is better to have too little than too much.What Does Flour Do In Cookies?
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More flour will result in a "breadier" cookie. It will have more structure and be less chewy. Less flour will do the opposite, resulting in a softer, flatter cookie.
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