Why are my chocolate chip cookies coming out flat?
You might not have mixed the mixture long enough, or you might need a little more flour. Your cookies will lose some of their bulkiness when cooling off, but if they are going completely flat then it has to do with the gluten in the flour not being worked sufficiently to hold the structure of the cookie, or there not being enough gluten to hold the structure, or both. ADDITIONAL: It has nothing to do with your baking powder/soda or eggs. Since you state your cookies are rising then these leavening ingredients are working fine. Eggs do add a little something to the structure of your cookies, though, so having bad eggs can create a slight problem in that respect but wouldn’t cause such a drastic change. The same goes for the fats (butter or shortening) used. Your cookies would drop in the oven if the dough was too short, not after you took the cookies out. So the problem lays in the flour and/or how it was mixed. There is the possibility that you have too many chips in the dough. This wo
