How to Make Perfect Cookies

Making Cookies: Avoiding Pale and Burned Cookies - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats.

Today, I am going to talk about a problem that a lot of people have with their cookies: they are burned on the bottom and they are pale on the top. After all that work, you have got funny looking cookies, and that is not a good result. So, what to do about that problem? Pretty easy. One thing is if you are using cookie sheets that are dark on the bottom or non-stick cookie sheets that have a darker finish to them, you need to lower the temperature of your oven by twenty-five degrees. So that might solve that problem.

If that is not your problem and you are not using that kind of cookie sheet, then perhaps the problem is that you have hot spots in your oven, and lots of people have that. So when that is the case, you would take your two cookie sheets, because of course one is not enough, that does not make enough cookies, you will have two cookie sheets, and what you want to do is you want to rotate the cookie sheets halfway through the baking. So let us say your cookies took twelve minutes to bake. So we will put one cookie sheet on the top shelf, the other cookie sheet on the middle shelf, we will cook them for six minutes. Let's say six minutes have gone by, and then we are going to rotate the trays. So we will take the top shelf to the middle, the middle to the top, and go front to back. So we will put it back in this way, we will put this one back in also reversed, and then bake it again for the last six minutes.

So remember to go up and down, and back and front. And you will rotate and you will have more even cooking and circulation of the heat around the cookies, so you will not have a pale top and a burnt bottom. The last problem that might be a bigger problem than that would be that your oven is not calibrated properly. So you need to have someone come in and recalibrate the temperature of your oven so that it is actually a true temperature. So three problems it could be. One, that the cookie sheet is too dark, two, rotate because of hot spots up and down, front to back, or three, have the oven checked for its calibration.

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