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Girl Talk 13w
Guys I’ve baked cookies like 3 times but all the times they don’t spread out much and get harder on the outside what am I doing wrong 💔💔💔
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Anonymous 13w

It could be so many things, oven to hot, dough to cold when going into the oven, over-baking, old baking powder/soda, no enough sugar or butter, your butter is to cold, there is to much flour

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Anonymous 13w

you could probably add more butter or oil, use granulated sugar if you were using brown sugar

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13w

I follow recipes as listed that’s why it’s frustrating 😭😭I’ll stick to cooking ig

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Anonymous 13w

good questions too!

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13w

Are you using a scope for the flour, cause that tends to pack the flour and we want it light and fluffy

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Anonymous 13w

I browned it today i dont think it made much of a difference!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13w

A scoop? I did scoop it out if that’s the question mb😭yes

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13w

did you sift it after scooping?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13w

If you just scoop and not sift you can get 30% extra flour and that extra flour will soak up the butter and then the dough isn’t relaxing (spreading out) in the oven

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13w

Ohhh omg that makes sense ty

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13w

Yes! Please don’t give up on baking! Sometimes you just need to talk with others to figure out what’s going wrong!

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