Perfect cookies. Yay!
At 1am I decided to make some chocolate chip cookies, and Mark thought it would be a great and fun idea to add a Hershey's Kiss to each one just like we did with the Peanut Butter Blossom cookies I made last night.
My cookies, both times now, have come out perfect.
I used to always burn cookies, no matter what I did, greased cookie sheet, un-greased, cooking spray, lower temp in the oven, whatever, I would always, always, always burn the bottoms of my cookies at least a little bit.
About a week ago, I found a recipe for some different types of cookies, and the directions said to use parchment paper to line the cookie sheet with.
I've only ever used parchment when working at the Italian bakery when making the pizza and calzone, but never when baking cookies, and they never did either, and they would make hundreds of cookies every single week.
Because I wanted to make those cookies, I bought a roll of parchment but haven't made those cookies yet.
Last night and tonight, I decided to try the parchment paper when making the cookies to see if it would really help in me not burning another batch or 2 of cookies like I always do.
It totally did!
4 batches of cookies and not a single 1 got burnt!
Maybe parchment is the secret baking tool that I just never used the right way for all of my cookie baking sessions.
I swear it really made all the difference, if I had baked them straight on the cookie sheet, they all would have been burnt or very close to burnt.
All 4 batches of cookies have come out absolutely perfect, soft baked, chewy, nice and golden brown with not a single spot of dark crispy cookie.
I'm definitely going to keep parchment on hand from now on and use it every single time that I am baking any cookies.
I can't believe that it has taken me this many years and dozens and dozens of burnt cookies to figure this out.
D'oh!
Comments
Putting a Hershey's Kiss in the middle of a cookie is not your husband's "idea", nor is it new. LOL
Kat Edit**
First, Mark is NOT my husband, he's my son, obviously you're a troll or you would know that fact.
Second, I never said that it was new, I said my son thought it would be fun to put them in a choc chip cookie.
You have nothing better to do than troll my blog? Seriously?
Posted by: Solstice | December 22, 2009 7:34 AM
Not to mention the ease of cleaning, no more cleaning greasy cookie sheets when you use parchment.Just wipe down the sheets when you're done, no more endless scrubbing off grease and burnt-on stuff.
Mike's mother used to mail him her hermit cookies. They were always burnt on the bottom. She sent me the recipe so that I could make them for him, I used parchment, and they were not burnt at all, they came out so much better than hers...with the exact same recipe. It really does make a difference.
At this one place I worked, we reused the parchment by flipping it over for the next baking, before finally disposing of it. That can help save a little money.
This stuff has a zillion uses in the kitchen, it's always good to keep some on hand.
Posted by: Christine | December 22, 2009 11:33 AM
Sheesh, how dumb can anyone be? What part of My SINGLE MOM Life does this troll not understand? Last time I checked, single moms are single because they do not have husbands.
Not just a troll, but a very stupid one, too, if they can't read that Hugh Jass title banner at the top of this blog.
Posted by: Christine | December 23, 2009 11:56 PM