So we're going to start with my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe and, with a few simple tweaks, give you options for potentially turning it into YOUR favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe – no matter which camp your textural preference falls in: crunchy, crisp, or chewy. Plain and simple, the perfect chocolate chip cookie is the one you love best. More words than you could shake a spatula at have been written about "the perfect chocolate chip cookie." But what is that elusive being, anyway?
Cookie crisp recipe how to#
So here's the deal: my goal with this post is to show you how to take a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe and give it the texture you prefer: light and crunchy thin and crisp or soft and chewy. Your oven, pans, ingredients, and even your micro-climate and the weather affect what you bake. So I'm not fond of trying 87 different takes on a recipe to get it exactly right.įirst, I see that as a waste of time if you can get 95% of the way there in the first three tries, you're good.Īnd second, having been developing recipes for King Arthur Flour for over 25 years, I know that what comes out of my home kitchen won't be exactly what comes out of yours – even when you follow the recipe exactly as written. I put my heart and soul and brain into everything I bake – but I also put those three entities into a zillion other things important to me: like family, friends, counseling women with health issues, and volunteering at various non-profits. I don't use a cookie cutter, braid bread dough (aside from a basic 3-strand), or decorate cakes. Let me tell you up front: I'm devoted to simplicity in food prep, and that includes baking.
Cookie crisp recipe plus#
The interaction between sugar and fat and flour, baking time and temperature – plus a large measure of experimentation done right in your own kitchen – is how to nail your favorite chocolate chip cookie texture. What makes a chocolate chip cookie chewy? Or crisp, or crunchy?
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