Mel's: December 2011

Merry Christmas Everyone!

(Had to take a short break from baking as we were moving into our new home, but I'm back in the kitchen now).

Did you know.....

You should always cool cookie sheets before putting a new batch of raw cookies on the sheet. Warm sheets start the dough melting slowly before it goes into the oven, which can cause too much spreading or deformed cookie shapes.

A good practice is to keep forming cookies and laying them out on parchment, while the cookies are baking. When the hot cookies come out of the oven, slide the hot liners onto cooling racks and slide the new cookie lined parchment sheets onto the hot cookie sheets and put into the hot oven immediately.

from Cookies and Brownies

by Alice Medrich

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