The Essential Guide To Baking

cookie on wax paper and chill only until the chocolate sets up. Serve at room temperature.

Cookies freeze well and also will stay fresh when they are sealed in an airtight container.

Always wrap cookie dough when storing it in the refrigerator. The baking soda, nuts and

chocolate, will pick up odors and ruin the cookie's flavor.

Never mix types of baked cookies when storing or packing for gifts. Nuts pick up odors and

so does chocolate. When different types of cookies are placed together they all will pick up

the dominate odor. Ginger cookies will make all the other cookie types taste like ginger and

so on.

For holidays or parties, color granulated sugar with a bit of food coloring and sprinkle on

unbaked sugar cookies. Lightly press the cookies flat with the bottom of a drinking glass and

bake as usual.

Use as little flour as possible when rolling out or cutting cookies. The excess flour will d

raw moisture from the cookie and also ruin their finished appearance. Use bread type flour for

dusting your cookie cutting board. Bread flour will brown quickly and not ruin the cookie's

appearance.

Freshen up frozen or stored pre−baked cookies by placing them in the oven (300 degrees for

minutes) or better yet, place in your microwave for a few seconds.

Chocolate chip cookies may have a white haze on the chips and heating in the oven or

microwave will make them taste and look like fresh baked.

Use high quality jam, not jelly to dot or spread on cookies. Jelly is thin, weak in flavor

and not suited for cookies.

Sandwich peanut butter or raspberry jam between your Vanilla Wafer cookies for a taste

sensation.

Lightly toast macaroon coconut to make a super good topping.

Use glazed cherries to decorate Butter Wafer cookies or any cookie that needs a splash of

color. Place a small piece of the cherry on the top of each cookie before baking. Glazed

cherries do not have much flavor, so use almond extract in the cookie dough when you want a

cherry taste.

Try toasting coconut, nut−meats and oatmeal before adding to the mix. Toasted coconut will

give your cookies a new and special flavor.

Adding food coloring to coconut will give a festive air to your cookies. Color small amounts

of coconut with different liquid food colors, then blend them together before adding to the mix.

It is important to make notes and attach them to each cookie recipe that you make. Next time,

you'll have the notes to refer to and your finishing process will flow much smoother. A sigh

post of great baking is consistency in every thing you bake. Notes will help you keep the

things you bake consistent time after time.

Baking Cookies