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[quidditchgrrl]

Help! Call the *waaahhhhbulance*!

I'm having cookie trouble!

I've attempted the recipe on the Toll House chocolate chip cookie bag. No nuts. So far, so good.

When I bake them, however. They seem to have flattened out, with a ring of dough around the edges and the chocolate chips in the middle. The chips have melted along the bottom and the dough is a bit greasy/shiny.

The oven was at the right temp (although it's electric and can randomly change temp) for the cookies, 375 degrees for 9 minutes.

*wails* Advice! I'm desperate! Ransom will be considered.

Comments

[simons-flower.livejournal.com]

Try more flour and a bit more baking powder.

Whenever I've baked chocolate chip cookies, the dough has been sort of "sticky" -- on my fingers and on the spoon -- before I drop it onto the sheet. I don't have problems when the dough is that consistency.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Maybe a tablespoon of flour? Or more like 1/4 cup? My dough was pretty sticky, but I was able to get it off my spatula.

*goes to try*

[simons-flower.livejournal.com]

Start with a 1/4 cup, then work up from there.

If I recall correctly, the basic recipe calls for 3 cups and I usually put in 3.5 cups.

[netbyrd.livejournal.com]

I was about to say the same thing, so I'll just ditto this. When they flatten like that, like little UFO's, the flour ratio is off. I end up flouring my hands alot, so that helps me.

And now I want to make cookies too. My husband brought home two gargantuan bags of chocolate chips, and I keep sneaking handfulls out of one of the bags.