Cookies

[afuna]

Last week I made two batches of almost-perfect chocolate chunk cookies.

This week, I tried it again, and ended up with the first batch way overdone, and (because I was twitchy after the first batch) a second batch that is slightly underdone.

Since last week's was just a bit too sweet, I substituted half a cup of semi-sweet chips for half a cup of the dark chocolate buttons (half a cup out of 1 1/2 cups). That's toned down the sweetness, but I wonder now if it's toned it down too much.

I will try again in another week, and hopefully this time it'll be more like my first attempt at cookies by myself (beginner's luck!) rather than this week's :-)

Comments

[afuna]

Hee, I do that *grin* As well as a tiny bit of instant coffee powder to give it a magical secret ingredient smell.

I wonder if it makes any difference to use salt balance (a salt... substitute) rather than salt.

Well, but, it gives me hope to realize that failed batches are perfectly normal *G*

[james]

I sometimes even fail baking store-bought dough. ;-) But in my defense, we keep moving so every couple of years I have a new oven to try to figure out the temperature of.

[sporky_rat]

Don't sub your salt! Use plain ordinary salt.

[afuna]

Sadly we didn't have any, because my dad insists on using * substitute for everything (we don't have sugar anymore: we have glucose. We don't have salt anymore, it's all salt substitute. We can't even get rice! GRAR)

I will buy some for my own personal use though >_> Cookies with real salt taste so much better.