Tips to Prevent Cookies From Spreading

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Baking a perfect batch of cookies can be a challenging task for beginners because there are plenty of small tricks to learn in order to perfect your technique. Cookies that spread in the oven is one of the most common baking problems that most beginners will face, so here are a few tips that will help you prevent that from happening.

Chill the Dough

The main reason why most recipes instruct you to chill the cookie dough is that the dough is will be too warm or too soft after mixing. In that case, it’s best to leave it in the fridge to chill overnight or at least for one or two hours.

Adding Too Many Liquid Ingredients

Measuring ingredients correctly is the most important step if you want to bake the perfect cookies, and this is best done by using a kitchen scale. One of the reasons why your cookies are spreading in the oven is because you used too many liquid ingredients like sugar, eggs, milk, and more.

Hot Baking Sheet

When baking more than one batch of cookies always let your baking sheet cool in between batches because placing cookie dough onto a hot baking sheet can easily ruin the cookies.

Oven Temperature

Last but not least, use a thermometer to check oven temperature because the cookies will likely spread if it isn’t hot enough.