Chewy Cookie Turning Soft and Cakey Suddenly
I had perfected these cookie recipe that resulted in deeply flavored and very chewy cookies but the batch this time came out to be soft and cakey. Only 2 variables had changed:
1)I had previously made them a few times in batches of 4 pcs at a time. However, today I made a bigger batch and baked 12 pcs at once instead of 4.
2) I had used a brand new box of baking soda instead of an older box of baking soda.
Here is the recipe:
Chocolate Chip Cookies (makes 4 *65g each) (380F for 11-13 min)
67g flour (50g bread flour
+ 17g cake flour)
1/2 tsp milk powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
56.6 g unsalted butter, divided
- 39g for browning
- 18g cut into small pieces and add to brown butter later
67g dark brown sugar
17g granulated sugar
28.8g egg (about half an egg)
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
29 g 66% Organic Bittersweet (Callets), dusted with cocoa powder
29 g 63% Gourmet Bittersweet (Bar), coarsely chopped, divided some for garnishing
but the few volume measurements can get wonky when multiplied depending on how it was done. Write out the recipe for the increase on paper and everything in grams. Find out how many grams teaspoons weigh in the 4 cookie recipe then multiply. Rounding off eggs might have added enough moisture to get cake cookies. Be exact. Would be interesting if we could compare to the x3 recipe. Might be a simple math error. :)
Did the dough feel the same?
When looking over my recipe to compare, my cookies have one teaspoon soda for 205g flour. 67 x 3 = 201g so you use less soda than I do. Hmmmm. My butter is higher, 250g.
No chance you swapped the bread flour and cake flour? :)
thats a lot of soda for 4 cookies. its double the normal amount.
plus you are now using a fresh batch of B.S. with possibly more kick.
I agree about too much baking soda.
Is it possible that it should be "baking powder" ?
(I got the two confused in my younger days.)
Should there be some water in there? Or does the butter and 1/2 egg provide enough water to hydrate the flour and milk powder?
baking soda is the correct ingredient.
Baking powder will make it dry and hard, not soft chewy.