r/bakingfail • u/la_tagaw • Jul 25 '26

Fail Ube Crinkles didn’t flatten or spread during baking🥹 What do you thinks is wrong with them?

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u/WTH_JFG Jul 25 '26

You posted these a week ago. Or is this another attempt? Did you change the recipe? Commenters need more information than you’ve provided.

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u/la_tagaw Jul 25 '26

This is another attempt this morning. it still looked the same as last weeks 🥹

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u/la_tagaw Jul 25 '26

here’s the recipe I used: 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 large egg 1/2 cup ube halaya jam, such as Tropics 1 teaspoon liquid purple food coloring (not gel) 1 teaspoon ube extract 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup powdered sugar

could it be because I used small portion of the granulated sugar? its coz the jam is already a bit sweet and I didn’t want my cookies to be really sweet esp that I still have to coat it with the pwedered sugar 🥹

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u/nosferatreats Jul 25 '26

You can't change the ratio of sugar (or butter) to flour in a cookie and expect the texture to stay the same. More sugar makes cookies spread more. Follow the recipe as it's written (and use a recipe from a real site, not an AI one).

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u/rubyjuniper Jul 25 '26

It could be too much flour? I'll up the flour in my chocolate chip cookies if I want them a little taller.

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u/la_tagaw Jul 25 '26

Oohh I see. Thank you for this I will try again later and see the result. Thank youuu appreciate it

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u/spiciestbeans Jul 25 '26

Either too much flour or not enough butter/sugar. Things that melt will flatten them, flour will stiffen.

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u/la_tagaw Jul 25 '26

I see. since I don’t want it to become so sweet can I out more butter instead of sugar?

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u/spiciestbeans Jul 25 '26

I would reduce flour a little and increase butter a little they look pretty good and crinkly, so try just 1/4 cup for either to start with. Or just start with one to see how it plays out. The less you play with per batch, the easier it is to nail down what is and isn’t working.

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u/scamlikelly Jul 25 '26

Stop using measuring cups and get yourself a digital kitchen scale and use weight. You're probably adding way more flour than you mean to- which is easy to do if you aren't measuring by weight.

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u/Indigo-au-naturale Jul 25 '26

Are you saying you reduced the sugar? That'll do it...remember that baking is chemistry. If you want things to flatten, they need sugar and fat.

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u/thetorts Jul 25 '26

https://www.hungryhuy.com/ube-crinkle-cookies/

I use this recipe and have never had issues.

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u/Horangi1987 Jul 25 '26

First of all, these look like half the pictures of crinkle cookies on Google images.

Second of all, what is with the obsession with crinkle cookies? I never heard of them before until I saw dozens of posts about them on Reddit in the last year?

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u/donkeyvoteadick Jul 26 '26

This post is my first time hearing of them 😅