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at Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:04:02 GMT in >,
(Lewis Dodd) wrote :
> What ingredient makes cookies soft and chewy, like the special
> chocolate
>chip cookies?
>
2 different ingredients.
For soft, increase the ratio of eggs.
For chewy, increase the ratio of sugar.
So, for soft and chewy, increase the ratio of eggs and sugar at the expense
of that of flour and butter.
Brown sugar is particularly effective at making the cookies chewier.
As a tweak, bread flour makes cookies chewier than all-purpose, which is
chewier than pastry flour, which is chewier than cake flour. But the
differences are slight until you start comparing the extremes - i.e. bread
flour cookies will be considerably chewier than cake flour cookies.
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Alex Rast
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