Trying to bake chocolate chip cookies and may have run into a snag. Help!?
Question by tomlawbcs: Trying to bake chocolate chip cookies and may have run into a snag. Help!?
The making of the dough was not a problem. But I thought me and my daughter could make “decorative” Christmas cookies out of chocolate chip dough. I see now that this may be a problem.
Anyway, we have a boot-star-tree and do we use the ornaments to put the dough in and then leave them on while we cook the cookies or remove the ornaments?
I guess it all could work. But I can see now why sugar cookies and the like are more common for decorative cookies…
Best answer:
Answer by Emma
The cookies are going to spread and distort the shape you’re looking to create. You could bake the cookies by pressing all the dough into a baking sheet and then cutting the shape you want after they’ve cooked and cooled slightly. You can then outline and decorate the shape with some stiff frosting to make it more clear what the shape is.
What do you think? Answer below!
Most recipes for chocolate chip cookies are for a “drop” cookie (the directions will say something like “drop by teaspoon onto a cookie sheet.”) The only way to utilize cookie cutters is with a cookie recipe that calls for “rolling out” the dough (the directions will say something like “roll dough to 1/4-inch thick”). If your recipe calls for the “drop” method, then cookie cutters will not work.
However, you can still make your cookies decorative! Use colored sprinkles, colorful mini M&Ms, Christmas colored chocolate chips (in the baking aisle). You can also bake the dough in a brownie pan, bake like brownies, and cut with your ornament shapes *after* baking and cooling. (Many people do this when they’re in a hurry and don’t want to take the time to make individual cookies; so, they make the dough into Chocolate Chip *Bars* instead.)
If your recipe calls for rolling out the dough, then get back to us, and we’ll steer you through the process.