How to bake soft cookies
- Use brown sugar or a brown sugar/sugar combo. Brown sugar creates a more chewy cookie, granulated sugar creates a crispier cookie.
- Slightly reduce the oven temperature. This will allow the cookie to bake fully without browning too soon.
- Don’t over bake! Remove the cookies when the middle is set but before they look done.
how do you know when they look done? I’m always afraid that cookies will be undercooked and I end up over baking them. What’s the trick?
My ginger cookies always flatten out and don’t stay rounded up. I use a combination of
brown and white sugar as well as part butter and shortening.