The great cookie debate!

[cupcake_goth]

 I told the Madwoman the science behind why melting the butter would work better for the crispier gingersnaps I prefer for the bats. (Science learned by you commentators and a few cooking blogs run by actual scientists.) However, as soon as the words "cooking blogs" left my mouth, she shut off her ears, or at least filtered what I was saying through her vehement and perpetual annoyance at cooking blogs. 

"The ones I looked at are written by actual scientists!"

"COOKING. BLOGS."

So! I am making a batch of dough with my recipe, and she will make a batch of dough "fixing" my recipe, and then we'll see which works for what I want. 

To be clear, she's in no way annoyed with me. She's just baffled and very cynical. 

(Mind you, she's also amused that the Stroppy One and I follow cooking times on recipes, going so far as to set timers.)

Anyway, all of this to say: TWO BATCHES OF COOKIES, HECK YEAH. 

Comments

[cass404]

Oh gosh, try lebkuchen, delightful spiced / gingerbread-y cookies with a bit of lemon zest and juice and maybe rum drizzle. Those changed my life yesterday.

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[lichprincessceleste]

Victory! Two batches of cookies will be good no matter what the "correct" way turns out to be. (Note: I don't believe in correct ways of cooking/baking, only how you/the recipient of the food prefers it~)

[staxxy]

YAY COOKIES!!

[madgastronomer]

There are Cooking Blogs and then there are Food Science Blogs. Distinction!

I do tend to say, "Dammit, Jim, I'm a cook not a baker!" but if you want thin and crispy, melted butter is the correct thing, I concur. Creaming introduces a lot more air into the cookies, which of course makes them fluffier. I believe Alton Brown did a Good Eats episode on chocolate chip cookies that discusses various ways to get different effects, including creaming vs melted butter.

[radiantfracture]

Still I am rooting for your cookies

[danabren]

I am extremely invested in the result of two batches of cookies.

[tiggymalvern]

Hope the The Great Gothic Bake-Off goes well for you XD

[archersangel]

yay for more cookies!

i look forward to hearing about the results.

[icprncs]

Savants are prone to forgetting that not everyone has the knowledge and experience they do. ;) (I got a bunch of my recipes from cooking blogs, including the blue cheese shortbread.)

I know roughly how long everything I bake is supposed to take, but I still set timers because sometimes they don't quite follow the pattern, and so that I WILL REMEMBER TO CHECK.

Also, the recipe for the butterscotch bars came off the back of the Guittard butterscotch chips package. I idly checked it this year...and they changed it to require melted butter instead of solid butter and creaming. I'd already made mine using the old version of the recipe but I might try it the new way next time.

[sistawendy]

As I once told the esteemed DJ Hana Solo, Charlie don't bake*. And that's because, to quote my father, I'd just eat them.



*Except for cornbread.