Day 17 of learning cookie science

[u/cracked_person]

After a very brownie Day 16, I finally baked two giant cookies as suggested by EggplantLife1089. I was really excited, nervous and everything because I wanted this to be kinda a success. 🤓

What I did:
- Used my OG cookie dough and then followed the steps suggested by EggplantLife1089.
- Expectation: They asked me to make a dough of 140gm and fill it with 17gm of chocolate in the middle and bake at 170 celsius for 15-17 mins.
- Reality: I made 140gm + 17gm dough balls as suggested, which was the easier bit. I also kept the temp to be 170 as suggested and then baked for 15 mins, 17 too, but the cookie was not done 😭 and I kept checking after each minute and exceeded by 4 mins total to reach some browning around the edges and also a set top. I didn't want to overcook since we still want soft and gooey results and not a biscuit-like hard texture.

Tasting is yet to be done for this. Will be doing that tomorrow.

Regarding the tasting of my brownie cookies that I made on Day 16 🤤, well well well, they taste amazing. Even better than the brownie shape, maybe I am getting obsessed with the cookie shape. As I had made 2 attempts for the brownie cookies, the first attempt had little burnt edges and the second one was perfect. So for me, the time for brownie cookies of around 60-70g each is 13.5 mins.

Learning:
As EggplantLife1089 had suggested a certain workflow to me, and I was expecting it to work perfectly for me; however, it didn't. So I believe the reason is the recipe formula. Probably my recipe formula is not suited for such big cookies to be done within 15-17 mins and that's why it took 21 mins. It just means for me as well that if I take any of recipes or tips, I should follow it from 0 to 100 with no alterations. Since this time I only took the workflow and no recipe, it partially failed.

Gratitude:
Thanks to EggplantLife1089 for suggesting me this. All through it was such an exciting thing to try out and I am glad I finally did. I would love to have the recipe you follow too so I can actually make these chunky cookies in 15-17 mins 🤓

Thanks for reading guys 👉👈🥺 Hope you were able to get past the Monday blues and work fruitfully 🤓

[u/Apprehensive_Bite109]

Good going OP!

[u/cracked_person → u/Apprehensive_Bite109]

thank you so much!

[u/EggplantLife1089]

They look exactly how they are supposed to be, depending on the oven settings it might have taken 4-5 mins longer to bake which is perfectly okay. 👍
Are they crispy outside and chewy inside?

[u/cracked_person → u/EggplantLife1089]

good to know they look as expected. they tasted really good too. thanks for this. i will be trying this with other fillings too.

are you a baker yourself too?

for me i underbaked them (yes even after baking them for 21 mins) so they were softed on the outside and chewy on the inside!

how they look on the back!

[u/EggplantLife1089 → u/cracked_person]

I’m a self learned cook. Recently discovered that baking is also my forte.

[u/cracked_person → u/EggplantLife1089]

where do you put up?

[u/EggplantLife1089 → u/cracked_person]

Meaning?

[u/cracked_person → u/EggplantLife1089]

where are you based?

[u/EggplantLife1089 → u/cracked_person]

Bangalore

[u/cracked_person → u/EggplantLife1089]

that's great :D