How to Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies

The smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies is one of those scents that permeates childhood and remains fond for your entire life. With a few simple tips, you can bake cookies that will help friends and family relive the joy of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. You can improve most recipes by using some of the following ideas.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. Find a good chocolate chip cookie dough recipe. This is your best friend when trying to bake chocolate chip cookies. There isn't one perfect recipe, but there are many tried and true recipes, so pick one you know and like.

2. Preheat your oven before you begin mixing your ingredients for the dough. This will help make sure the oven is hot enough so that the first batch cooks evenly, and it will also help you know how long each batch will take. If the oven is cooler when you start the first batch of cookies, then they will take longer to cook and it may cause you to overcook the next batch.

3. Make sure that all of the ingredients are as fresh as possible. Old eggs and hard butter do not make good cookies. Also make sure that the chocolate chips are fresh and not dried up or melted.

4. Measure all of the ingredients properly. The texture and viscosity of the cookie dough is essential to making the perfect cookies. If the dough is too dry, you can end up with hard, brittle cookies. If the dough is too moist, the cookies will not cook properly and you will be left with a big mess.

5. Use real, unsalted butter and let it soften at room temperature instead of in the microwave. If you don't mind the extra fat, use butter even if the recipe calls for margarine. Butter will make cookers softer and more flavorful. Don't melt the butter, just soften it to the point that it will combine with the dry ingredients.

6. Try substituting half of the all-purpose or white flour with whole-wheat flour. The whole-wheat flour will add some flavor to compliment the chocolate chips and can add that special "something" to the cookies that will make everyone want your secret. It may also help ease your mind about using real butter.

7. Chill the chocolate chip cookie dough between baking batches in the oven. This will make it easier to handle.

8. Bake the chocolate chip cookies using light cookie sheets instead of dark, non-stick cookie sheets. The butter in the chocolate chip cookies should help keep them from sticking and the darker cookie sheets can overcook or burn the bottom of the cookies.

Tips & Warnings

• Remove the cookies from the baking sheet and place them on a cooling rack before they cool too much. This will help them from sticking to the cookie sheets.
• Always check to make sure you have enough of all of the ingredients before you start making dough.
• Do not open the oven often to check chocolate chip cookies. Let them cook for at least the minimum time according to the recipe and then check them as sparingly as possible. Opening the oven causes the oven to lose heat, which can lead to longer cooking times and unevenly cooked cookies.
• Do not skimp on the chocolate chips. The quality of the chocolate chips can make or break your cookies so try to get the best quality available

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