Does anyone know How to make cookies from scratch?
Most bags of chocolate chips have a pretty tasty recipe on the back. Here is one of the most simple cookie recipes I’ve ever made: 1 box cake mix any flavor (I like cherry chip or yellow the best) 1-8 oz pkg cream cheese – softened 1-stick (1/2 cup) butter or margarine softened 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla powdered sugar Cream the cream cheese and the butter together (creaming them means that they just get well mixed) Add the egg, vanilla and cake mix. Put the dough in the fridge for at least a couple of hours or overnight. Scoop the cookie dough into balls about the size of a ping pong ball or a little smaller. Roll the dough balls into the powdered sugar, then put them on a lightly greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10-12 minutes. If this is for a demonstration, you can bring in a a hand mixer, and all the ingrediants, Mix it all up, you could even roll the cookies in the powdered sugar. It will be okay since you won’t be baking them right away anyay. Als
The basic leavening method for cookies is creaming. This is important to understand. Creaming is when you combine sugar and fat and mix it together for a while. As the two are combined, the sugar crystals cut little air holes, kind of like tiny caves, in the fat. Properly creamed butter and sugar takes a while to achieve and should appear greater in volume and lighter in color than the original products. It takes about 5 minutes on medium speed in my kitchen aid mixer to achieve this stage. The temperature of the butter is critical. Shortening at room temp is always the perfect consistency and margarine, even straight from the fridge is ok, but I far prefer the taste of real butter in my cookies. Leave butter out at room temp for a couple of hours, or until you can bend the stick with your fingers. Measuring ingredients properly is key. Brown sugar needs to be packed when measured and flour should be measured exactly. Professional bakeshops measure flour by weight only. The home baker
