Baking Science

How to Bake Thick Cookies (Bakery Style)

If you’ve ever tried to make thick, bakery-style cookies at home, you know how frustrating it can be when they spread into flat cookies instead. You start with a scoop of dough that looks perfect… and then it melts into a thin cookie in the oven. The good news is thick cookies aren’t just luck. […]

Why Cookies Spread Too Much (And How to Fix It)

Few things are more disappointing than pulling a tray of cookies out of the oven and seeing they have spread out into nothing but thin, flat cookie pancakes instead of thick bakery-style cookies. You started with a scoop of beautiful dough, but somewhere during baking the cookies spread across the pan and lost their shape. […]