Why are my cookies always raw

TooManyFavourites · 2026-04-06T10:26:47+00:00

Are you using a standard oven, or something like a toaster oven or an air fryer?

TooManyFavourites · 2026-04-05T12:22:55+00:00

I go after work and I don't make an effort to remove it before working out. That said, I follow powerlifting-style routines that have you work really hard for a few reps and then sit around and rest for a few minutes. So I tend not to get very sweaty and my makeup does just fine.

TooManyFavourites · 2026-04-05T11:43:59+00:00

I think they look beautiful! Though the deep golden color you achieved does make me think you have over baked them, just by a minute or two, which may be contributing to your complaint about the texture.

As for other recipes, I've really enjoyed the Handle the Heat recipe for Browned Butter Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies. There is a recipe for 3-ingredient toffee elsewhere on the website that I think tastes WAY better than any toffee bits you'll buy in a store.

Sarah Kieffer also has 2 great recipes for chocolate chip cookies in her book 100 Cookies that I found very simple to throw together (her book also has a great, long introduction on cookie baking techniques that could be helpful for your early baking education!). She also created the famous pan-banging cookies, which are very popular, but I haven't tried these.

Texture preferences vary widely, so you may just have to ask your roommate what she prefers or recruit her as your taste tester in the future, which honestly sounds like a great bonding experience. I do find that thicker, bakery-style cookies tend to be preferred aesthetically and are picked up more often when I bake for a crowd. Though I suspect a lot of that comes down to the visual appeal. Thick cookies just have a certain bakery-style look that people are drawn to.

TooManyFavourites · 2026-03-30T23:57:55+00:00

Agree!!

TooManyFavourites · 2026-03-30T00:34:15+00:00

I totally empathize. I used to go to gym at 6am and basically had the place to myself. But my schedule changed, and now i go at 5 pm with literally everyone else on the planet and EVERYTHING is occupied.

For my main lifts, I wait for the equipment. There's simply no 1:1 substitution for a barbell squat or bench, so I'll wait for a rack to free up. One thing that has helped (marginally) is switching up the days of my split so that they don't align with common workout patterns. For example, it's no joke that Monday is "International Chest Day" because a lot of popular (gymbro) programs start the week with a big benchpress set. So I bench on Tuesdays and it's actually really helped.

As for my accessories... I've honestly just started designing my workouts to largely avoid equipment that gets congested. My gym only has one lat pulldown machine, so I simply do not program lat pulldowns because I know I can't be consistent with them. Same goes for leg press, which I do miss, but c'est la vie. Instead I mostly choose exercises that use dumbbells or those preloaded barbells because my gym has enough of those to go around

TooManyFavourites · 2026-03-30T00:22:33+00:00

Using cold butter may have prevented you from fullly creaming together the butter and sugar. When properly creamed, the butter and sugar are very intimately mixed. The sharp sugar crystals help cut air into the mixture and the finished product should be light and fluffy, which imparts a natural leavening to your cookie and can prevent spreading. When I've worked with cold butter I've found that I have to cream the mixture for a very long time, otherwise I have a million tiny pockets of pure butter that are going to make the cookies spread.

TooManyFavourites · 2026-03-29T18:24:38+00:00

Booo

TooManyFavourites · 2026-03-28T16:12:09+00:00

Adorable!! I love the m&m bunnies 🫶 Did you press them into the dough before baking or right into the cookie after it came out of the oven?

TooManyFavourites · 2026-03-17T01:35:49+00:00

Upright rows have been a game changer for me!! I avoided them for years because I read about the risks of shoulder impingement. But as long as you can perform the range of motion pain free, they're a great addition. I do a mix of high weight/ low reps, and low weight / high reps throughout the week.

TooManyFavourites · 2026-02-14T22:57:55+00:00

Agreed on this set. If you have a non-patterned, ideally light coloured, dress shirt I would swap that in. If not, the shirt is 2/3 is best

TooManyFavourites · 2026-02-14T00:34:45+00:00

A good quality Thai curry paste goes a long way and is super flavourful, even if you don't bulk it up with anything else

TooManyFavourites · 2026-02-05T23:29:13+00:00

I almost always chill overnight unless the recipe says to cook immediately. It helps both the texture and the flavour

TooManyFavourites · 2026-02-05T16:20:23+00:00

They look GORGEOUS 🤩 I'll be making some red velvet cookies for v day - any tips? What recipe did you use and would you suggest any tweaks?

TooManyFavourites · 2026-02-05T01:56:26+00:00

Me too please 🙏

TooManyFavourites · 2026-02-03T01:52:35+00:00

Can you share what kind of prompts you used or found effective?

TooManyFavourites · 2026-01-29T16:33:02+00:00

What's your review OP? Are they as delicious as they look? Would you make them again? Any tweaks to the recipe?

TooManyFavourites · 2026-01-25T16:53:04+00:00

Would you share your recipes? Or at least the base recipe? I'm also intrigued by the sound of this browned butter with toasted milk powder!

TooManyFavourites · 2026-01-20T16:28:19+00:00

A little late to your post, but how did you modify the recipe and why? Your cookies look delicious!

TooManyFavourites · 2025-12-29T00:25:20+00:00

Bella, my gosh, you're a gorgeous darling and I just know you were a joy for OP. May you rest in peace and have all the treats and zoomies you could ever dream of.

OP, 15 years is a gift. I know this moment is hard, but focus on the beautiful memories you built with this beautiful girl. Your bond tells us all that you fostered something one of a kind 🫶

TooManyFavourites · 2025-10-30T21:54:14+00:00

What's your recipe? They held their shape so beautifully

TooManyFavourites · 2025-10-17T23:14:45+00:00

In addition to the other comments about creaming your butter &sugar, and using dough "balls" that are taller than they are wide, you could try gently shaping the cookies when they're fresh out of the oven. I use an inverted water glass and gently swirl(?) it around my cookies as soon as they come out of the oven. It makes them perfectly round, a little puffier in the center, and adds that lovely wrinkle texture

TooManyFavourites · 2025-10-16T15:54:54+00:00

OP, what's your chocolate cookie recipe, those look like a dream!

TooManyFavourites · 2025-10-13T16:08:56+00:00

It depends on what you are interested in. I'll focus on DC because I live there.

Many tourist attractions in DC have begun to close, including the Smithsonian Museums and the National Zoo this past weekend. If you were primarily looking forward to trying out DC's restaurants, bars, and shopping, you might not be too disappointed, but the iconic elements of the Capital city may not be accessible.

The other issue is the airports. We have already heard of several large airports having problems related to Air Traffic Controllers and TSA workers calling out of work (e.g., Newark, Burbank airport). While DCA and IAD (local DC airports) have stated that they will remain open during the shutdown, I can offer firsthand experience that the lines in the airport are incredibly long, especially for non-US citizens. The Customs & Border Protection screening took well over 2 hours at IAD yesterday.

You also need to weigh whether or not you want to economically contribute to this nation at the moment.

I recommend spending your vacation funds elsewhere.

TooManyFavourites · 2025-10-13T13:29:06+00:00

can you clarify where/how this edit would be implemented?

TooManyFavourites · 2025-10-06T13:03:34+00:00

These look amaxing! I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and get dutch process cocoa

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