Urgent - Idiot Proof Cookie Recipe Needed

• ShrodingersCat

  22 Jan 06, 21:36

  I neeeeed an IDIOT-proof cookie recipe for myself
  I don'tknow why everytime i try to make cookies
  It's a DISMAL failure
  DISMAL
  
  I just need a SIMPLE one.. and one problem I have is.. creaming the butter
  does it ALWAYS splatter this way?!
  
  
• klishcia

  23 Jan 06, 14:09

  There's this brand, they already mix flour,sugar etc together. All you need is to add in egg and butter, stir well and bake. I forgot the brand name but can find it in NTUC, bakery section.
• ShrodingersCat

  23 Jan 06, 14:33

  Betty Crockers.... but.. u know my big problem is
  the part WHEN u add in the butter and the eggs...
  somehow I can NEVER make that part look effortless and everything goes into a splatter and then ... its downhill from there.
• klishcia

  24 Jan 06, 12:14

  Don't use machine lah.. use egg beater mix it yourself lor. When i do it, no problem leh.. And the cookies very nice...
• Prophecy_Master

  24 Jan 06, 14:22

  ok first u need to cut the butter up in to slices. then slowly using a spoon smash it against the sugars. do it slowly soon the butter will melt then stir it soon it will become all well mix. if u are using a mixing machine then start with the lowest speed u can find. and slowly increase it.
  
  my advise don't use the mixing machine. do it slowly your cookie will have that melt in the mouth feel.
• ShrodingersCat

  24 Jan 06, 17:53

  i worship u, dear master
  
  -sprawl on ground and do a few kow tows-
  
  I only have 1 cheap one-speed mixer-chopper-blender
  therefore it splatters like siao
  
  but... that's wonderful to know i don't NEED the mixer! I can use the spoon!
  
  Low tech solutions make me feel much more secure..
  
  MUAKSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssss
• klishcia

  24 Jan 06, 19:10

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  I only have 1 cheap one-speed mixer-*chopper-blender*
  therefore it splatters like siao

  Cannot use chopper-blender lah.. [/u]
• Ito_^

  24 Jan 06, 19:16

  i tot they got sell those add powder n water can le?
• the Bear

  24 Jan 06, 19:45

  hand knead your cookie dough!
  
  don't use machines for cookie dough
• ShrodingersCat

  24 Jan 06, 22:13

  Originally posted by klishcia:

  Cannot use chopper-blender lah.. [/u]

  no no.. it has a 'mixer' attachment. except the speed just too fast ba...
  
  its like those.. 3-in-1 thingy.. change the 'head'
  
  bobian leh.. bo lui~
• ShrodingersCat

  24 Jan 06, 22:15

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  hand knead your cookie dough!
  
  don't use machines for cookie dough

  Err. I got to teach my kids how to make leh. AND trust me.. u dont want lots of mucusy, snoog covered hands and goodness knows WHERE those hands have been digging into the dough.
  
  
• the Bear

  24 Jan 06, 22:16

  but seriously.. you gotta use your hands...
  
  could use gloves..
  
  and here's the chance to teach them personal hygiene
  
  

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  Err. I got to teach my kids how to make leh. AND trust me.. u dont want lots of mucusy, snoog covered hands and goodness knows WHERE those hands have been digging into the dough.
  
  

• ShrodingersCat

  24 Jan 06, 22:27

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  but seriously.. you gotta use your hands...
  
  could use gloves..
  
  and here's the chance to teach them personal hygiene
  
  

  Issit? Sniffle.. no chance of making drop cookies??
  
  Oh well.. looks like that seems to be an answer... gloves...... :O
  
  Thanks
  
  I chickened out this week.. did something simpler after my TWO batches of cookies failed. The problem is how to look PRO while doing it... I CMI leh... And kids are like sharks, they can smell fear!
• the Bear

  24 Jan 06, 22:32

  try it out at home first..
  
  use your hands.. knead the stuff.. the most mechanisation you can and should use would be the rolling pin and the cookie cutters
  
  that's the fun part of making cookies.. the hands-on bit...
  
  that and pinching the chocolate chips that are supposed to go into the cookies
  
  

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  Issit? Sniffle.. no chance of making drop cookies??
  
  Oh well.. looks like that seems to be an answer... gloves...... :O
  
  Thanks
  
  I chickened out this week.. did something simpler after my TWO batches of cookies failed. The problem is how to look PRO while doing it... I CMI leh... And kids are like sharks, they can smell fear!

• ShrodingersCat

  24 Jan 06, 22:35

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  try it out at home first..
  
  use your hands.. knead the stuff.. the most mechanisation you can and should use would be the rolling pin and the cookie cutters
  
  that's the fun part of making cookies.. the hands-on bit...
  
  that and pinching the chocolate chips that are supposed to go into the cookies
  
  

  I did.. tried out 2 times.. but both failed miserably. I can do muffins/cakes but dont know WHYYYYY cookies elude me...
  
  But will try again during this CNY holidays ba....
  
  
• the Bear

  24 Jan 06, 22:42

  well, you used the machine
  
  butter.. sugar to dissolve into the beaten butter.. then slowly the other stuff like flour.. slowly slowly...
  
  or the hard way.. which is by hand
  
  gotta admit to only using hands once...
  
  started with butter and squishing with hands... an oily mess.. then the sugar.. mashed in.. then flour sifted in with cocoa powder... slowly adding and squishing the stuff in until it becomes a dough...
  
  then adding the choc chips after eating most of it
  
  
• Wanda

  25 Jan 06, 09:20

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  Issit? Sniffle.. no chance of making drop cookies??
  
  Oh well.. looks like that seems to be an answer... gloves...... :O
  
  Thanks
  
  I chickened out this week.. did something simpler after my TWO batches of cookies failed. The problem is how to look PRO while doing it... I CMI leh... And kids are like sharks, they can smell fear!

  Why don't you teach the kids to make rock buns? Sure cannot fail one, and if they turned out overbaked or too hard, just tell the kids, that's why they're called rock buns.
• Prophecy_Master

  25 Jan 06, 11:32

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  i worship u, dear master
  
  -sprawl on ground and do a few kow tows-
  
  I only have 1 cheap one-speed mixer-chopper-blender
  therefore it splatters like siao
  
  but... that's wonderful to know i don't NEED the mixer! I can use the spoon!
  
  Low tech solutions make me feel much more secure..
  
  MUAKSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssss

  i am glad to be able to help u.
  so did my method work ?
• klishcia

  26 Jan 06, 09:33

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  no no.. it has a 'mixer' attachment. except the speed just too fast ba...
  
  its like those.. 3-in-1 thingy.. change the 'head'
  
  bobian leh.. bo lui~

  Cat, i was window shoppiong at shop&save (neighbourhood one lah). I saw the machine selling at $24.90 'Aerogaz' brand. It'll be better then using egg beater.
• photo_seeker

  26 Jan 06, 18:09

  NTUC, Carrefour and Shop & Save have these economical brands mixer. Pretty good.