I'm sure many of you may have already come up against this at one time or another, but just in case it hasn't crossed your radar yet, here goes!
I am in no way shape or form a professional chef - I am a home cook, just someone who loves to tinker with recipes and has a family cookbook to draw upon for new ideas. I also am addicted to food magazines and Food Network and get a great many new inventions from reading and watching.
Cookies are my Achille's Heel - for some reason I have yet to be consistent with them. That said, I do feel I need to pass along a tidbit or two about cookies:
* Do NOT, I repeat NOT, spray your cookie sheets with Pam or any other cooking spray. The end result will be a "cookie blanket" with crispy to burnt edges and gooey, undercooked "lumps" scattered throughout. You will be saying, "Dear Lord, what IS that thing?" before it's come out of the oven.
* Though some recipes call for Earth Balance Buttery Sticks in place of butter, for cookies the translation does not work well. As the sticks are 79% vegetable oil, you get the picture... I could not "contain" the cookies and they all joined together. I have had MUCH better luck using shortening instead. Go figure.
* If you use butter, just be aware that it needs to be soft, not melted, when making the cookie dough. Of course, you can always chill the dough for a while if you did melt the butter because you didn't feel like using hockey pucks, i.e. cold butter.
Now I am off to practice some zen meditation... be ONE with the cookies... :o)
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