I think it’s maybe a little but of both of what you and Annoyed_[Crabemoji] said. From what I remember of baking, butter being not chilled enough will cause it to be too soft and cook out before the chemistry can happen and they deflate like that. But obviously, it’s real tough to mix in chilled solid butter, so by the time you’ve needed it enough for it to incorporate, it’s warm again. When I was in culinary school back in the day we’d bake in huge batches, obviously, so we’d use big ole mixers to combine the cold butter quickly with giant mechanical paddles that forced it to combine while still cold. But at home, if you have to mix by hand and you know that the butter isn’t cold anymore you can definitely chill the cough before baking. I don’t remember much from those days (I was never a baker, I was a line cook, but baking classes were required), but when I saw your picture my immediate thought from the dredges of 20 year old memories was “That butter wasn’t chilled.”
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Uncaged_Jay@lemmy.world 8 months agoI didn’t chill the dough, though the recipe didn’t tell me to and my wife said I didn’t need to, so I’m thinking I over mixed it
TheActualDevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Coreidan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Been baking cookies for years. You definitely do not need to chill any of your ingredients. If you need to do that then you already screwed up with your ingredient ratios.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 months ago
It’s not a requirement i think, but it will shape up well and easier. You mentioned that only 1/4 did this, maybe it’s due to uneven mixing? Did you use mixer for it or did you mix by hand? Maybe the butter isn’t soft enough so it didn’t mix well?
Uncaged_Jay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have one of those KitchenAid mixers, that’s what I used. I’m wondering if the butter didn’t melt after the fact while it was sitting in the bowl since these were the last ones that I made
minorninth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Did you scrape the bowl while mixing?
KitchenAid mixers are great, but depending on what you’re mixing you need to scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula and then mix some more.
I don’t think it’s over mixed, I think the cookies made from the batter that was stuck to the sides are under mixed.
Uncaged_Jay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think you might be right. Honestly, the number of different responses indicates it could’ve been pretty much everything
minorninth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also, did you fully cream the butter and sugar before adding any other ingredients?
If you just dump everything into the bowl and then mix, this is what happens
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 months ago
What the other user said, maybe it’s just uneven-mixed batch from the side of the bowl. But if everything doesn’t checks out, then i’m out of idea 😅