I wanna make some cookies!

mouseymousey99

I made redruby's last night - very nice. Next ones will add some coconut.

melie3

ive tried baking the above with a warren brown recipe, but after baking they have turned rock hard, still soft in centre but may break your tooth biting in lol....

any ideas how to soften up, they taste lovely when warm, but you really dont want to eat 24 of them at once !...

any ideas?

midnightraven3

i use the millies cookie recipe as we like soft cookies
muscovado sugar, and dont over cook them is the secret

take them out before the go brown, or when they are cool/cold, as you have found, they go hard

vatic

melie3, being American I hope I can help!

A trick I've heard that works for brown sugar supposedly for cookies as well:
Place them in an airtight container with a slice or two of bread on top for a day or two.

The trick to to avoid your cookies getting too hard in the future is to really watch them when they're cooking. It all depends on how 'soft' you want them. But it's not like cakes that are popular here, you can open and close the oven door a lot to check and see how they're doing. They won't collapse!

A good idea is to use a toothpick to see how cooked they are throughout, you can start doing that as soon as they start turning golden brown on top. Usually you want to take the cookies out before they look 'dry' on top too.

I also tend to take them out of the oven early because the cookie sheet will still be hot from the oven and will continue to 'cook' the cookies as they cool. So there are some recipes where I cook the cookies a good 2-3 minutes less than the recipe specifies.

Good luck!

tessasmum

There's a recipe for Chocolate Chip and oatmeal cookies here:
http://mennonitegirlscancook.blogspot.com/2010/05/chocolate-chip-oatmeal-cookies.html
where it is recommended that you bang the baking tray on something hard and heat-resistant when you bring them out of the oven which somehow helps them to shrink down and become chewy - might be worth a try! It's on my list of recipes to try this week, so I can't say that it works myself but there are plenty of comments on the website that suggest that it does...

melie3

thankyou for that, i think i may have over baked a tad, they looked brown, but they are brown anyway?.... confusing, im a cake baker by trade so out of my depth with a gooey centre lol.....does this sound right 300f 8 mins, turn tin then another 8 mins?

im using light muscavado, not keen on the dark flavour... midnight i love millies cookies, where can i find their recipe?:)

Seakay

The whole golden brown thing falls down with chocolate cookies - any other tips for ensuring that they are soft after cooling?

Seakay

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/561092

See #3 for a Millies Cookie recipe

zippychick

Hi Melie

I haven't quite mastered cookies to the perfect chewiness yet:p

I wanna make some cookies may have some ideas

Chocolate chip cookies - millies recipe too should offer other recipes

Peanut butter cookies are lovely - I have made this recipe and it's fab:j

Good luck, let us know how you get on, and I'll merge this later with the first link

Zip

vatic

melie3 wrote: »

thankyou for that, i think i may have over baked a tad, they looked brown, but they are brown anyway?.... confusing, im a cake baker by trade so out of my depth with a gooey centre lol.....does this sound right 300f 8 mins, turn tin then another 8 mins?

Yeah, growing up I would always bake cookies at 350F and 12-16 minutes (depending on oven, altitude, etc), so what you're doing sounds about right. Those figures tend to be the magic temp/baking time for most types of cookies.