Do you sift flour that your making chocolate chip cookies from???!


Question: I attempted to make choc-o-chip cookies the other day for my daughter and christmas. I followed the recipe on the back of a bag of nestle toll house chocolate chips. I ran all dry ingredients through a sifter before mixing. Is this where I went wrong??? I was so excited until i checked on them and they weren't melting! And were done, but in round balls, and came out cake or bread like. not cookies. i told my 8yr old they were choco-chip cookie balls! Help


Answers: I attempted to make choc-o-chip cookies the other day for my daughter and christmas. I followed the recipe on the back of a bag of nestle toll house chocolate chips. I ran all dry ingredients through a sifter before mixing. Is this where I went wrong??? I was so excited until i checked on them and they weren't melting! And were done, but in round balls, and came out cake or bread like. not cookies. i told my 8yr old they were choco-chip cookie balls! Help

Did you sift prior to measuring or after?

It honestly sounds to me like there was not enough butter or wet ingredients ( or, on the other hand, too much flour ).

Sifting the flour adds lots of extra air - it doubles the volume of the flour, which would explain why they cookies were so light and fluffy that they didn't even melt into proper cookies.

Cookies generally do not need the flour sifted. Plain old white flour - not cake flour - works just dandy right out of the bag!

Though choco chip cookie balls sounds really good!

No, it could be the temp on the oven or the you missed something, sifting only get the lups out of flour and such.

Its not necessary to run all the dry ingredients through the sifter. I have never used flour through a sifter unless I was making an angle food cake. Sifting flour for chocolate chip cookies is not necessary, and you possibly used a little too much flour. My last suggestion is to bake cookies with real butter and not spread.

You can sift the dry ingredients if you want to. But I never do especially in cookies.

My cookies never flaten out and rise so I make them into balls, then flatten them out myself into the shape of chocolate chip cookies before putting them in the oven. Then they might spread out just a little in the oven and that's about it.

Good luck!

Presifted flour is packaged already sifted. The measurement for your recipe should not be tapped down causing the flour to settle and then you might add too much measured flour.
Your cookies might become too heavy and not be baking properly. Go over the recipe and see that all ingredients were added including your baking powder.
I'm not sure what made them as you describe.

Sounds like either you didn't put in or enough Crisco and or butter.

No, you do not need to now adays.





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