Pay attention to the following points to make delicious cookies.
Use room temperature butter.
You can use frozen butter if necessary, so that cookies will not be so chewy. Room temperature butter will be better mixed with dry materials, such as sugar, flour, etc. This will help cookies keep their shape when baking. Some recipes also require semi-melted or melted butter, but it is safest to use room temperature butter unless the recipe specifically requires it. The quickest way to get room-temperature butter is to slice it and let it stand on the plate for 30 minutes while you are preparing other ingredients.
2. Try to use unsalted butter.
Different brands of butter have different salt content, so there is no way to know how much salt to add to biscuits. It is best to use salt-free butter and add accurate salt according to the requirements of recipes or recipes to avoid cookies being too salty.
3. Eggs should also be at room temperature.
Even though many eggs will be stored in the refrigerator, they should be baked at room temperature, because protein and yolk are easier to mix and will be more uniform in the batter. Make cookies better and crisper.
It's easy to get eggs at room temperature-just put them in a bowl filled with warm tap water 10- 15 minutes.
4. Stir the butter and sugar into cream.
This process is called "creaming", which basically means mixing raw materials with solid fat such as butter or shortening. Basically, if you use butter and sugar correctly, you will bake more uniform and fluffy cookies.
Reduce flour
Many people will do this when taking flour: put a measuring cup in the flour bag, scoop up a cup of solid flour, and then scrape off the excess flour with a knife. Cookies made in this way must be hard and dry. Instead, you should fill the measuring cup spoon by spoon and scrape off the excess flour with your knife. This will reduce the consumption of several tablespoons of flour and make the biscuits more chewy and crisp.
Freeze cookies before baking
Some people think that this is completely unnecessary and a time-consuming step, but these people are completely wrong. Freezing cookies in the refrigerator will make them easier to bake (less sticky) because the ingredients have time to mix and really bring the taste of butter.
7. Put coarse sea salt on chocolate biscuits.
Saltiness and sweetness can always complement each other, but putting a pinch of sea salt on delicious chocolate chip cookies will enrich chocolate and help butter and sugary dough taste better. Try it once and you will love it forever.
8. Dust the biscuit mould before use.
If you are making sugar cookies or gingerbread cookies and want to cut cookies with a cookie cutter, be sure to dip the knife in flour before using it. In this way, when you put cookies on the baking tray, the dough will be easily loosened from the knife. You should put both flour and rolling pin in your hand.
9. Buy insulated biscuit baking tray.
It's worthwhile to spend more money on insulated cookie baking trays, because they help cookies bake more evenly and the bottom won't burn. The insulating biscuit baking tray is made of multi-layer aluminum alloy, so the air in the baking tray is insulated, and not only the oven part is the hottest.
10. Reduce the oven temperature.
If you make thick cookies, adjust the oven temperature back to 25, which will help the outside of the cookies not to be too broken after stopping the internal baking. A serious baker should buy an oven thermometer to ensure that the oven is at the correct baking temperature.
1 1. Check cookies 2-3 minutes before baking.
If you like soft, slightly undercooked cookies, be ready to take them out 2-3 minutes before the time required by the recipe. Cookies are easy to paste, and they often don't feel good on the top floor, but they are perfect. When you can gently press a small mark, thick or wet cookies are made. When thin or brittle are ready, when they are solid and touchable, they have a slightly golden edge.
12. Store apple pieces and keep them soft with your cookies.
Wet apple wedges will make your chewy cookies feel a little wet and make them soft and fragile. At the same time, make sure that the biscuits are completely cooled and put aside, otherwise, the condensate will form soaked biscuits.