What the Hell Happened to my Cookies?
Only about 1/4 of them did this
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Only about 1/4 of them did this
Enzy, Swedish They evolved.
RepulsiveDog4415, I guess they unionised :D
Toadiwithaneye, It might be an altitude issue, higher elevation can make cookies look like that. I found high altitude cookie recipes and they puff up nicely.
CeruleanRuin, If this isn’t consistent across the batch, then I’d say you didn’t mix the dough very well. Some of the gobs got a lot of extra butter.
Mechaguana, ![]()
YOU FORGOT THE CHOCOLATE
Uncaged_Jay, I did not, they were in there… I should’ve used more though
AnalogyAddict, Everyone is telling you too much butter, but if this only happened to part of your batch, it’s more likely you didn’t scrape the sides of your bowl while mixing.
When mixing anything with creamed butter, especially, you need to mix about a third of the time, scrape all the sides and fold the dough, mix, scrape, mix, and do a final scrape/ mix/ fold by hand to make sure all the butter is incorporated.
Stand mixers have this problem more than hand mixers.
Yamainwitch, This is the right answer, when using a stand mixer you want to keep the speed level low (after creaming the butter/sugar/milk) and scraping the sides down to ensure an even distribution of wets/drys. Chilling can help with maintaining a shape, but it’s by no means mandatory. How did they taste? 😁
AWittyUsername, Too much butter. Dough wasn’t chilled. Oven too high. Cooked too long.
bhamlin, This one bakes.
Slow, I hungry! It looks quite appetizing compared to the pastries I made.
Donebrach, ![]()
you probably put too much butter in the dough. 1 stick is half a cup.
Uncaged_Jay, The recipe called for a cup. I linked it somewhere else in the comments
nnjethro, Sticks also come in 1 cup sizes, so don’t just go by “stick” unless you know for sure what size of stick you have.
Thavron, ![]()
Just. Use. Grams.
XeroxCool, OK but can grams convert between scales easily like how 1 stick is 3 thumbs or 5-1/3 sticks is a stump? Yeah, didn’t think so
bhamlin, So you’re saying it’s not just how you use it, but size matters too?
nnjethro, If anyone tells you differently, they are lying ;)
whoisearth, Chill the dough first my dude and use shortening.
Coreidan, Yup, that’s what happens when you make your cookies all different sizes and don’t properly space them out.
BeigeAgenda, ![]()
Its the taste that’s most important, as long as they taste good they can be a bit wonky.
Uncaged_Jay, Most of them were fine, these were more like pralines or lace cookies though, and they are delicious like this
Pharmacokinetics, ![]()
They were victims of the “qwomp” spongebob sound effect.
Anonymousllama, It reminds me of those horror movies where little creatures all merge together to form one large grotesque abomination. I bet they’re tasty tho!
Uncaged_Jay, They certainly are!
Smoogs, You discovered the beginning spiral of a quantum singularity.
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