COOKIES

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

• a small sweet cake, typically round, flat, and crisp

KINDS OF COOKIES

• Pressed cookies
• Molded cookies
• Rolled cookies
• Refrigerator cookies
• Bar cookies
• Drop cookies

PRESSED COOKIES

• Cookies that are made through a cookie gun(cookie press)
• Rich, stiff dough

MOLDED COOKIES

• Made from stiff dough that is molded in balls or cookie shapes
• Stiff dough

ROLLED COOKIES

• Made from dense dough that is rolled out onto a counter and then cut into desired shape
• Stiff dough, 1/8 to 1/4 in dough use a cookie cutter

REFRIGERATOR COOKIES

• Made from stiff dough that is refrigerated to become stiffer.
• Normally no eggs

BAR COOKIES

• Sweet baked good that is like a cake dough, baked in rectangle pan.
• Soft dough,chewy or cake like

DROP COOKIES

• Made from a relatively soft dough that is dropped by spoonfuls onto baking sheets
• Soft dough, 2in between, spread more than rolled.

COOKIE INGREDIENTS

• Cookies contain the same basic ingredients
• Flour, sugar, liquid, fat, salt, egg and leaving agents.

COOKIE INGREDIENTS

• Many cookie recipes call for ingredients like...
• Spices, nuts, coconut, chocolate chips, dried fruits.

ONE STAGE METHOD

• Measure ingredients accurately, level off the top
• Ingredients should be room temp.
• Put all ingredients in mixing bowl at once.

CREAMING METHOD

• Measure ingredients accurately
• All ingredients should be room temp.
• Put sugars and fats in mixing bowl
• Put egg(s) and liquids in mixing bowl
• Add dry ingredients and mix until done

PANS FOR BAKING

• Drop, rolled, refrigerator, pressed, and molded cookies
• Should be cooked on flat baking pans or cookie sheets.
• Bar cookies
• Should be baked on sheets with sides

PANS FOR BAKING

• If you have two sheets of cookies at one time, you may have to rotate the pans during cooking.
• Pans can't be touching each other or the sides of oven

MICROWAVING COOKIES

• Bar cookies work well in microwave oven because the whole pan cooks at once
• Microwave at medium power

STORING COOKIES

• Crisp cookies need a loose-fitting cover. And remain dry to stay crisp.
• Soft cookies need tight-fitting cover.
• Bar cookies in their pans

STORING COOKIES

• Longer storage you can freeze cookies.
• Refrigerator cookies need to be wrapped in plastic wrap when in refrigerator

HOW TO FRESHEN STALE COOKIES

• To make cookies fresh again place them in the oven at (300 F) for a view minutes