Cookie Mania

Cooking school is essentially a pseudo replication of working in the industry; therefore when we make cookies we just don’t make 24. Our recipes for cookies usually yield more than 100 cookies. The key to a successful cookie is to not over cream the butter. Almost all recipes for cookies have in their directions to cream together the butter and the sugar. When you are making cookies you do not want to mix the butter too much or the cookies will spread in the oven, which means that they will get too thin.

Today we made 4 different variations of cookies

1. The Mudslide

I would assume this cookie is named due to the fact that after it is mixed it needs to set up before it goes into the oven. If you bake the cookie too early it spreads like soup in the oven. This cookie starts it’s life (before it goes into the oven) as a miniature mountain, and it comes out barely recognizable as a hill. The cookie had a very cakey consistency, and is similar to a brownie with walnuts.

2. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip

The traditional standard

3. Oatmeal Raisin

Even though I refrigerated these cookies for over an hour they spread a lot in the oven; I am not sure if there was enough flour in the batter.

4. White Chocolate Macadamia

These cookies are probably the most popular at school. They can be used as tools to bribe people… I think they will one day replace the chocolate chip cookie for the title of most popular