why do you stick/shove a fork in peanut butter cookies to make that criss- cross pattern?
2007-07-23 18:25:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
i still have no clue why. i think it's decoration and or it has something to do with the peanut butter. have fun voting on ths question!
2007-07-26 08:47:41 · update #1
I'm outraged that nobody has asked this. I'm gonna file a complaint somewhere.
2007-07-23 18:33:20 · answer #1 · answered by Toodeemo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dew to the peanut butter in the cookie dough the dough is thicker. So you can't just drop the dough on the sheet pan and cook like a normal cookie they need to be smashed down a little bit. A fork works well for this and you use the criss-cross pattern because that way the cookies end up round. If you only did it on way they would end up oval.
2007-07-24 16:44:09 · answer #2 · answered by TheOneAndOnlyBooger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like chocolates with the different drizzles on top, it's a way of telling one kind of cookie from another. The pattern's been used "forever" so everyone recognizes it as meaning "this is a peanut butter cookie".
2007-07-24 02:30:07 · answer #3 · answered by T J 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its so you can tell it apart from sugar cookies because on cookies that dont have labels usually sugar cookies wouldnt have any design on them but the peanut butter cookies would have a design for you to tell them apert by because if they didnt there would be alot of angry people that wanted sugar cookie wanters and peanut butter cookie wanters that got the wrong thing and it is also proobably somewhat just tradition now that everything is labled as some type of something because of people with allergies and things ( another reason there has to be a way to tell them apart. so people wont die when they eat a peanut butter cookie because their severly allergic to peanuts and they thought it was a sugar or mollasses or some other type of plain looking cookie)
2007-07-24 03:07:44 · answer #4 · answered by crystal h 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So the flavor of the peanut butter escapes and makes them more tempting to eat. Done by bakeries to sell more cookies.
2007-07-24 01:38:01 · answer #5 · answered by BangkokBob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tradition
2007-07-24 01:28:10 · answer #6 · answered by Walking on Sunshine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a decorative thing. I have made them where I just let them be a mound and they turn out just the same minus the fork marks.
2007-07-27 20:21:07 · answer #7 · answered by Steven C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So you can tell when there done. In the old days, when there were no oven timers, the texture was how the timing was done.
2007-07-24 02:06:44 · answer #8 · answered by Evan S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ITS DECORATION ON THE PEANUTBUTTER COOKIE JUST LIKE EVERYOTHER COOKIE HAS A DESIGN....
2007-07-24 02:04:05 · answer #9 · answered by Blue eyed girl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
presentation
2007-07-24 03:33:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋