How can I get my cookies soft and chewy on the inside, crispie on the edges?!


Question: No matter what, if I make them from scratch or even from a box! When I take them out of the oven, they're delicious, but after a few hours, they're hard and gross.

What can I do to make them perfect?

I use a gas oven.
Even the cookie mixes in a box where all you have to do is add butter and eggs! And I bake them the appropriate legnth of time or w/e and they're nice when they first come out and then gross aftera little while.





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Answers: No matter what, if I make them from scratch or even from a box! When I take them out of the oven, they're delicious, but after a few hours, they're hard and gross.

What can I do to make them perfect?

I use a gas oven.
Even the cookie mixes in a box where all you have to do is add butter and eggs! And I bake them the appropriate legnth of time or w/e and they're nice when they first come out and then gross aftera little while.





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I keep mine soft by not cooking them all the full time they want you to. I take them out when they look a little done...They stay yummy and soft . I worked for a place where this was the bakers trick. When the tips look just slightly brown(just edge tips) and they look lood gooey in the middle..take them out and live them on the pan...I swear it works everytime.

Store them in an airtight container as soon as they're cooled.

I'm only answering this so i can check back in later and read answers. This is valuable life knowledge! especially for us hot cooks!

You have to realize that not all cookies are even meant to be soft and chewy, only certain recipes. Drop cookies are the main source of soft and chewy cookies, like soft molasses cookies, chocolate drops, etc..

Bake them 2 min shorter than your supposed to than cool them and when you put them in a air tight container put a piece of bread in with them

use shortening instead of butter
underbake slightly
cool not on a wire rack, but on a clean dish or tea towel

what i do is what ever temperature it says to put i put 50 degrees less and i put the timer a few minutes less then the lowest it says to once it dings check them and guess how much time you need to make them perfect once they start getting a little brown pull them out

What kind of cookies are you baking? Usually a thicker cut or spooned type cookie tends to be chewy and a thin cookie tends to be crispy. If you store chewy cookies in a plastic box with an apple cut in half it helps to keep them chewy..almost all cookies are best if you take them off the cookie sheet and let them cool on racks--but especially cookies that you want to be crisp. Store your crispy cookies after they have cooled in tins or sealed plastic containers--but make sure they have cooled properly. If all the steam is not out of them they will "sweat" in the container.
Don't trust your oven temp. to chance--purchase an oven thermometor and double check that to be certain it is correct--
your oven temp may be off. From what you describe it may be your oven temp...

The moisture left in the cookie is what makes it soft and chewy. This same moisture will make the crispy part soft in a short time. If you put them back in a hot oven for a minute or so they may crisp back up but if you leave them too long they will not be soft and chewy any more.

What about keeping the uncooked dough in the frig and cooking a few at a time?

I can only offer you some tips.
1. Preheat oven. After oven is preheated, turn it down 25*.
2. Use larger amounts of dough. If it says to drop rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheet, I use a tablespoon.
3. Cook for the shortest time stated, or if a specific time is stated cut back by 2 minutes.
4. After removing cookies from oven, place on top of oven and do NOT remove from cookie sheet for at least 3 minutes. The heat from the pan will continue cooking the bottom and edges without over cooking the middle.
5. For storing my cookies, all I do is place mine on a plate that fits my cake dish, then I just toss the plate on the table/counter and cover with top of cake dish.
6. If for some reason your cookies still are getting hard all you have to do is toss them in a microwave for 30 seconds. Not only will that soften them up but it will also get them warm again.
7. If none of these work for you, then email me with the recipe or box mix you are using and I'll see what I can come up with for you.

Good Luck, and I hope this helps you.

try baking them on parchment paper, I've heard that it cooks them more evenly...I don't know if that would keep them chewy or not...good luck





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