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Cookie-Baking Tips
Small tips can make a big, delicious difference
The holiday season means a lot of cookies in the oven. So make it easier on yourself: We have some tips to help you get your butter softened, your dough cleanly rolled, your cookies evenly portioned, and more.
Incorporating Flour into Batter
How to Soften Butter
Easy Cookie-Dough Handling
How to Brown Butter
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract
Portioning Cookie Dough
How is pounding the butter different from putting in a stand mixer on low for a few minutes?
@bella sarda
"I don't get the tip on making your own vanilla extract. Vanilla beans are incredibly expensive and you have to pay for the rum. I doubt that it would be cheaper on a per-ounce basis to make it yourself than buy it, unless the vanilla beans can infuse a very large portion of rum. However, the video doesn't even indicate how much rum to use."
It depends where you buy htem, you can...+READ
@bella sarda
"I don't get the tip on making your own vanilla extract. Vanilla beans are incredibly expensive and you have to pay for the rum. I doubt that it would be cheaper on a per-ounce basis to make it yourself than buy it, unless the vanilla beans can infuse a very large portion of rum. However, the video doesn't even indicate how much rum to use."
It depends where you buy htem, you can order ood beans online for around a dollar each, you can reuse one bean several times, until the alcohol no longer gains vanilla flavour. e.g www.vanilla.com You'd use a small bottle say 25ml and one bean to make a portion.
You could easily have found the amount of alcohol to use if you'd searched on the internet :) next time educate yourself rather than doubting.
Vanilla bean = $1-1.50 (can be reused several times so really $0.2-0.5)
Price of rum or vodka 50ml mini = $1.50 ($.75 per portion)
Total = $1 per 25ml.
Price of crappy vanilla extract $3.59 per 35ml, decent stuff is $5 or more but for a bigger bottle.
Do the math.-COLLAPSE
@bella sarda
"I don't get the tip on making your own vanilla extract. Vanilla beans are incredibly expensive and you have to pay for the rum. I doubt that it would be cheaper on a per-ounce basis to make it yourself than buy it, unless the vanilla beans can infuse a very large portion of rum. However, the video doesn't even indicate how much rum to use."
It depends where you buy htem, you can...+READ
@bella sarda
"I don't get the tip on making your own vanilla extract. Vanilla beans are incredibly expensive and you have to pay for the rum. I doubt that it would be cheaper on a per-ounce basis to make it yourself than buy it, unless the vanilla beans can infuse a very large portion of rum. However, the video doesn't even indicate how much rum to use."
It depends where you buy htem, you can order ood beans online for around a dollar each, you can reuse one bean several times, until the alcohol no longer gains vanilla flavour. e.g www.vanilla.com You'd use a small bottle say 25ml and one bean to make a portion.
You could easily have found the amount of alcohol to use if you'd searched on the internet :) next time educate yourself rather than doubting.
Vanilla bean = $1-1.50 (can be reused several times so really $0.2-0.5)
Price of rum or vodka 50ml mini = $1.50 ($.75 per portion)
Total = $1 per 25ml.
Price of crappy vanilla extract $3.59 per 35ml, decent stuff is $5 or more but for a bigger bottle.
Do the math.-COLLAPSE
scmccormick22, take a look at where KrystynaCooks lives. Australia. I'm guessing she was talking about Australian dollars. $120 Australian dollars = $78 US dollars (today, that is). And many things are a lot more expensive in certain countries than you'll find in the US.
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Just a clarification, KrystynaCooks, Silpat mats are not even close to $120.
The price on Amazon is between $13 and $30 depending on size. Even Williams-Sonoma sells them at $26. Next time you decide to over-exaggerate, at least make it plausible.
Gourmet stores do tend to mark things up, so something that would sell at WIlliams-Sonoma for $25 might be $35 or $40, not $120.
I roll my dough out between two sheets of GLAD BAKE cooking paper, then I use one of the pieces of paper to bake on. A lot cheaper than a Silpat mat ($120) in gourmet kitchen stores here
I don't get the tip on making your own vanilla extract. Vanilla beans are incredibly expensive and you have to pay for the rum. I doubt that it would be cheaper on a per-ounce basis to make it yourself than buy it, unless the vanilla beans can infuse a very large portion of rum. However, the video doesn't even indicate how much rum to use.
In the tip about rolling cookies out on a silicone...+READ
I don't get the tip on making your own vanilla extract. Vanilla beans are incredibly expensive and you have to pay for the rum. I doubt that it would be cheaper on a per-ounce basis to make it yourself than buy it, unless the vanilla beans can infuse a very large portion of rum. However, the video doesn't even indicate how much rum to use.
In the tip about rolling cookies out on a silicone mat, it showed someone trying to roll cookies out on an unfloured counter. A light dusting of flour, and turning the dough with a dough scraper every so often will prevent sticking. No need to buy those pricey mats!-COLLAPSE
I pounded the butter today...it was really fun :)
I didn't get much out of this video. Basically, I learned a new way to soften butter instead of microwaving it: pound the butter until softened. This is a better way as when I microwave, I take the risk of melting the butter.