The PR department at my company often receives free magazines where our stores have had products featured. One of my absolute favorite publications, Cook's Illustrated, is amongst those publications. This is absolutely awesome because I can peruse the recipes, tips and tricks for free!A few days ago I was looking through one such magazine and happened upon three great tricks for making deliciously perfect chewy chocolate cookies. I'm certainly going to be trying these out; I thought some of you might appreciate them as well.
Eliminate the Yolk: Reduce your egg(s) to just the white portion. This cuts excess fat, which can make cookies too tender.
Incorporate Cocoa: Use powder cocoa rather than melted chocolate in your batter. This will help to keep tenderness in check. (Use a high quality cocoa so that you don't lose the intense chocolate flavor). You can also substitute more cocoa for some of the flour to enrich the chocolate flavor without hurting the consistency. Be careful to not subsitute too much - the reaction between the flour & liquid ingredients greats gluten, which helps the cookies stick together.
Use Less White Sugar: By replacing some of your white sugar with dark corn syrup and dark brown sugar, you'll help to boost your cookie's chewiness.
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Thanks for sharing these tricks!
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Cool tricks! I love to bake for my Gluten Free Family. We found a trick to take any wheat recipe and change it to GF one. Add 1 egg, change the flour to any GF flour mix you have,and add half again as much leavening as the recipe calls for. It really works! I am going to try the sugar trick! I love chewey cookies. Thanks a lot!
do you have a recipe for those chewy chocolate chocolate-chip cookies?
Unfortunately I do not, but if you go to the cooks illustrated site, you can sign up for a 14 day free trial and find it there for free :)
http://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipes/login.asp?docid=5769
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