The Essential Guide To Baking

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES:

Always add your peanut butter as the last ingredient to the recipe. It's very easy to over

mix peanut butter cookies and they'll be greasy if you do. Mix in the peanut butter only until

it is blended.

Bake the proper length of time. A little under bake is much better than to over bake peanut

butter cookies.

Use crunchy peanut butter instead of smooth when you want more peanut flavor.

Use plenty of vanilla extract. Vanilla will bring out the peanut butter taste.

OATMEAL COOKIES, OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES:

Add raisins with the sugar and mix dry until the raisins are crushed. Add shortening to the

mix and cream well together.

Add a little cinnamon to bring out the flavor of the oatmeal and the raisins.

Use Old Fashion Oatmeal (Three Minute, is okay) in your oatmeal cookies. Instant oatmeal

will dissolve and make a heavy cookie.

Chopped nut−meats and finely chopped fresh apple is a good addition to oatmeal cookies.

Be careful not over bake oatmeal cookies. Less is better. Remember, cookies continue baking

after they are removed from the oven.

GINGER SNAP COOKIES:

Use only fresh ground ginger spice. Ginger loses flavor with age and should be replaced when

you've had it a long time.

Bake ginger snaps −− well done. When they are under baked they will be soft, but maybe that's

ok. They are still delicious.

CHOCOLATE COOKIES:

Be careful about over baking chocolate cookies. Since they are already brown, it's hard to

tell when they are done.

Time your first batch and then add or take away from that time.

Add a little black pepper to your chocolate cookies. Sounds strange, but black pepper makes

for a new taste twist.

Use Dutch Process Cocoa instead of regular cocoa in your chocolate cookies for a new look

and taste.

VANILLA WAFER COOKIES:

Bag out Vanilla wafer cookies as soon as you have finished mixing them. This batter will not

tolerate sitting around.

Vanilla wafer cookies must have a good bake. They should be medium brown all over. When

vanilla wafer cookies are over baked, they will be hard and crispy, but when they are under

baked they will not be good at all.

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 processes 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.

Ingredients for cookies:

Baking Cookies