How to make homemade cookies?
You want to impress your children or your guests with cookies that you have taken out of the oven. Here are some good tips for making homemade biscuits:
Use real butter to make your homemade biscuits a success
The first tip is to use real butter to give flavor to your biscuits, unless your doctor has advised you against the use of this ingredient.
Butter is the main ingredient for the preparation of the “best biscuits in the world”. But you should not overdo the quantity to make the recipe. Put good butter in the right proportion. You can replace it with margarine, but expect that the flavor will not be the same, and your cookies will not be as crunchy as you want.
Let the cookie dough rest in the fridge
To make delicious biscuits, it is best to let the biscuit dough rest in the fridge for around 30 minutes. This tip helps stabilize the gluten, and will make your cookies crispier, while keeping a perfect shape.
Simply shape the dough into the shape you like, on a baking sheet, and place it well in the fridge. Once the raw cookies have hardened, place them in an airtight bag. Then you can put them in the oven in a few minutes more than the usual cooking time.
Prepare cookies with beautiful shapes
For baking, provide space for your biscuits, so that they take shape little by little, without touching each other, while keeping their pretty shapes. To protect the baking tray, spread parchment paper over it. This also makes cleaning easier.
Make your biscuits a success with good materials
First of all, know that the cookie dough only needs to rise a little. Typically, yeast is not the main ingredient.
To prevent your cookie dough from filling with air, avoid beating it with a whisk; instead, use a wooden spoon to mix the ingredients. You can also do this with a food processor. These devices carry out mixing without aerating the dough.
How to recover slightly faded cookies
We all know that homemade cookies are quite a sweet treat and they are not always recommended for those who want to eat healthily.
However, the sugar attracts moisture in the air and spreads it into the texture of the cookie. This is why the biscuits gradually lose their crunchy side. As the days go by, they become soft. It is also because of the method of conservation.
To preserve them without the spoiling effects of air and humidity, put your cookies in an airtight container. Add a few rice seeds to the bottom of the box to absorb as much moisture as possible from the air.
If you want to save soft biscuits and regain their crunchy texture, simply put them back in the oven for 3 minutes at 160°C or 140°C if you activate the rotating heat function.
Spread your soft biscuits on the baking tray, on parchment paper of course. Allow the action of the oven to dry out excess moisture, then let cool before serving.