The best way to do this is by controlling temperatures! For many cookie recipes, this begins by bringing your ingredients to room temperature, which allows for the dough to emulsify easily.
This helps create the consistent texture and structure that is required for sandwich cookies in particular, but we follow this tip with all cookies.
We suggest having your eggs and butter out for about an hour prior to preparing your cookie dough.
Although it may seem obvious, the oven temperature is also very important, which is why all recipes specify a temperature for baking.
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Yet many people don’t actually know if their ovens are running at the temperatures at which the dial is set!
Your recipe may call for you to bake at 325° Fahrenheit, but an uncalibrated oven could be running at 300° or 350°.
The differences in temperatures can result in cookies that spread, cookies that may be under-baked in the center, cookies that are over-baked, or unevenly baked!
The best tool you can invest in to help you bake to perfection is an oven thermometer. Trust me on this one.
An oven thermometer is a simple kitchen tool that’s very inexpensive and it will ensure you are baking your cookies at exactly the temperature.
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Don’t Bake Cookies for Too Long
For the best cookies going, it’s important to bake cookies properly which means not baking them for too long.
If you bake cookies for too long they’ll get overly crunchy, spoiling the intended texture and oftentimes the flavor, too.
Cookies are done when the edges are firm and lightly browned. Depending on how soft the cookie should be, the centers may look under-baked.
Pull the cookies out of the oven when the edges are done. They’ll continue cooking for a few minutes after they come out of the oven resulting in the perfect cookie.
Many cookie recipes call for you to transfer them to a wire cooking rack after they’ve been out of the oven for a few minutes.
This helps the cookies to cool quicker by removing them from the hot pan and allowing the air to circulate around all sides of the cooling.
This stops the baking process, resulting in perfectly baked cookies every time.
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