Everytime I bake cookies they always end up getting hard and don't stay soft. Is there some kindof trick to keep this from happening?
2007-09-05 11:27:56 · 12 answers · asked by Little Bunny 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
No I'm not baking them too long, its when they sit out for a while that they get crunchy- and does that really work- a piece of bread?
2007-09-05 11:39:53 · update #1
Alright people I used a freakin Betty Crocker package to make chocolate chip cookies.
2007-09-05 11:45:30 · update #2
What causes baked cookies to be hard?
There are a whole bunch of reasons, from the oven temp to the cookie sheets to how they're stored. First, you may not have used enough liquid. Be sure to measure ingredients carefully. To measure water, place a liquid measuring cup on your counter, pour in the water, bend down and check the amount at eye level. If you're making cutout sugar cookies, don't use too much flour.
Next, the oven temp may have been too high and/or the cookies may have baked too long. Double-check the setting. If it's accurate and you think your oven's too hot, you may have to experiment a bit with the baking time. Check the cookies at the minimum baking time to see if they're done.
Dark, nonstick cookie sheets will give you hard cookies. Try compensating for this by reducing the oven temp 25ºF. And finally, store cookies in a tightly covered container.
2007-09-05 11:36:05 · answer #1 · answered by ۞_ʞɾ_ 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Here is a simple but challenging answer:
Some cookie recipes call for butter and some for shortening.
One of these ingredients tends to produce soft and chewy cookies and the other more crisp and crunchy.
I'm not going to tell you which is which, try it with peanut butter cookies and you will soon know the difference.
2007-09-05 12:09:21 · answer #2 · answered by Cannon Ball 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Bake them for 1-2 minutes less than you have been and then when you put them in a container to store, put a piece of white bread in with the cookies.
2016-03-18 00:35:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are kind of stuck when you use a package mix according to what they used in it. If you were to make them from scratch, here's a tip. White sugar makes dry crunchy cookies and brown sugar makes soft moist cookies. You can't control the mix and adding brown sugar to the mix will make it too sweet. All I can think of is maybe adding a little unsweetened applesauce to your package mix. That should keep it moist and not crispy.
2007-09-05 17:48:28 · answer #4 · answered by Rli R 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Be careful with the amount of liquids/fats you add to the mix. I find the more liquid etc that I add the more the biscuits (uh cookies) are crunchy...the less liquid the softer the cookie.
Make sure you store them in an air tight container...I've got a couple of containers I cant store biscuits in because even though they were sold to me as air tight they are not.
2007-09-06 00:32:49 · answer #5 · answered by marie.lee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the mixture is too dry when you are preparing them add a little extra butter (milk if used in the recepie is fine too), If thy are chocolate chip or something similar you can add a few more of that it will help make them softer and more choclatey.
Normally cookies should be cooked for about 10-12 minutes, if you want them soft remove them after around 8 or 9, this will depend on the recepie. Once removed take them off the tray immediatly as they will continue to cook on the hot tray even if it is out of the oven. Place them on a cooling rack.
You will need to try different cooking times for each recepie but they cookies will be soft if poked.
I hope this helps
2007-09-05 11:40:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Lack of preservatives in the cookie mix. Those cookies that you can buy that stay soft for days, it not weeks, are loaded with stuff grandma NEVER would have put in her cookies.
2007-09-06 06:23:03 · answer #7 · answered by Water Damage Restorer 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i never bake any cookie over 325 degrees not matter what the recipe calls for. and my cookies are not crunchy. and the rest is timing.
2007-09-05 11:49:26 · answer #8 · answered by newbe 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If they are hard after a day or so, then put a piece of bread in wherever you are storing them. the moisture in the bread will leak out into the container air, keeping it moist. The bread will dry up though.
If they are hard right out of the oven, you either didn't put enough flour in so the cookie dough was thin and started to run when it cooked, or you are greasing the cookie sheet. The instructions tell you not to do this because the dough needs something to grip onto so it doesn't run when baked. Just like you are not supposed to grease cake pans because the cake needs the pan to grip onto to rise up.
2007-09-05 11:38:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
put a slice of white bread in the covered container with your cookies. This will keep them nice and soft.
2007-09-05 11:37:00 · answer #10 · answered by Notbusy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋