It’s coming up to Christmas, and if you’re short on money or insanely bad at organisation, home-made chocolate chip cookies can work as a ‘thoughtful’ last-minutegift.
While you’re probably great at baking (I know I am) it can sometimes happen that the cookies burn, or don’t rise, or don’t cook or just taste frankly weird…
Or at least so I’ve heard…
Luckily, food blogger Handle the Heathas dropped a few tips on how to make your cookies look and taste as good as shop-bought, if not even better:
To make the cookies bigger and gooier, add more flour. To make them darker in colour, either add more butter or use brown sugar, and to make them look really spectacular, chill the dough for at least 24 hours.
This will also apparently intensify the flavours.
Freezing the dough for half an hour before baking will apparently make the cookies thicker, or if you want to make them chewier, use plain flour.
You can watch a TED talk animation on the science of cookie baking (which is a scientific field that I can really get behind…) here:
Now, is anyone else hungry?
