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12-23-2018 10:43 PM
12-24-2018 12:03 AM - edited 12-24-2018 12:05 AM
@Kachina624 wrote:@gizmogal. @Carmie. Her recipe didn't call for baking powder. That recipe has an awful lot of fat for a fairly small amount of flour. It does say to chill the dough and roll out the dough and cut out shapes. I think her dough was too warm.
Huh? The OP mentioned baking powder as an ingredient.
I do agree that cookie dough should be chilled first. She mentioned that she rolled the dough into balls. I don't see where she cut out shapes.
12-24-2018 01:41 AM
@Kachina624 wrote:@gizmogal. @Carmie. Her recipe didn't call for baking powder. That recipe has an awful lot of fat for a fairly small amount of flour. It does say to chill the dough and roll out the dough and cut out shapes. I think her dough was too warm.
The recipe cited in detail is not the cookie from the original poster. The recipe cited doesn’t include baking powder. But the first post of the thread describes her use of baking powder. These are two separate posts from different people. Original post mentions baking powder. Listed ingredients is in a completely different cookie recipe
Before you correct others, read correctly and comment in context.
12-24-2018 09:16 AM
Sometimes your brand of butter has too much water in it.
Sometimes it's the flour.
I have posted before that using King Arthur All Purpose flour instead of my usual Gold Medal AP flour made all of my cookies and cakes that I had been making for decades fail.
I use King Arthur for muffins and breads, but Gold Medal for the delicates.
12-24-2018 09:56 AM
did it call for 'softened butter' and you melted it in microwave?
Use the correct amount of flour ?
If it said 'refrigerate dough' and didn't
I have to make sure I refrigerate Mexican wedding cakes sometimes called
Russian tea cakes (same thing) sometimes called 'Snowballs'.
12-24-2018 01:26 PM
I had the exact same experience this year. I was careful to chill the dough and still zero success. I had to throw the dough out - total bummer!
12-24-2018 01:35 PM
That happened to me with press cookies last year. They would not come out of the press. And then the metal broke. Did not attempt them this year.
12-24-2018 02:42 PM
12-25-2018 08:54 PM
@DiAnne wrote:Could your butter have been too soft. Sometimes putting the cookie dough into the fridge for a while before baking helps.
My cookies have been too flat when my dough was too warm, and my pans were too warm too, when I didn't wait for them to cool down enough between bakings.
I also would use margarine instead of butter when baking, because that's what my Mom used to do, and then I learned that using butter is better when baking.
12-25-2018 09:09 PM - edited 12-25-2018 09:11 PM
@SharkE wrote:did it call for 'softened butter' and you melted it in microwave?
Use the correct amount of flour ?
If it said 'refrigerate dough' and didn't
I have to make sure I refrigerate Mexican wedding cakes sometimes called
Russian tea cakes (same thing) sometimes called 'Snowballs'.
When you have time would you please share MEXICAN WEDDING CAKE Recipe?
@shy bobcat I had the same fail with Mandel Bread last week. 😞
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