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Not enough egg
Egg is an emulsifier, but it’s also a source of moisture and water in recipes, which turns to steam in the oven, which helps baked goods puff and spread. Not enough moisture and not enough egg means your scoops of cookie dough won’t budge as they bake, which can be problematic.
How to flatten cookie dough with flair. … And there are no baking police: If your recipe tells you to flatten your cookies before baking, you just go ahead and do that however you want. So long as they end up evenly flat, that is; squashing cookies haphazardly under your palm means they may bake and brown unevenly.
Solutions:
- Decrease the amount of butter and sugar.
- Use shortening instead of butter, or a combination of the two if you don’t want to sacrifice that buttery flavor.
- Add an egg to the dough.
- Use cake flour or pastry flour.
Chilling cookie dough controls spread.
Chilling cookie dough before baking solidifies the fat in the cookies. As the cookies bake, the fat in the chilled cookie dough takes longer to melt than room-temperature fat. And the longer the fat remains solid, the less cookies spread.
If you bake your cookies on a greased sheet pan, not only will the cookies spread too much, but they’ll be too thin and they’ll probably burn, says pastry chef Eileen Gray. … “Parchment paper will prevent the cookies from spreading, and cleanup is a breeze.”
Flat cookies can be the result of a number of issues. Here are some of the main possibilities: OVEN TEMPERATURE: Be sure to have your oven pre-heated and ready to bake. … BUTTER TEMPERATURE Make sure your butter is room temperature, but not melted or super soft.
The following factors all increase spread in cookies: heavily greased pans, high sugar content, high liquid content, high oven temperature. In the one-stage mixing method, all ingredients are placed in the mixing bowl and mixed together.
As a general rule of thumb, you should refrigerate cookie dough for at least 30 minutes and up to 24 hours. More than that and you won’t see a noticeable difference in the final product, says Haught Brown.
You have several options: The simplest solution: add flour (and a bit of sugar). The true-to-the-recipe solution: double the rest of the ingredients. The “I am out of flour and sugar” solution: spread the mix out in the oven (at a low temperature) and dry it, mixing it up regularly to even out the temperature.