Home bakery Do's & Don'ts

Baking homemade cookies so that they have your desired texture, appearance, and nutritional value requires more than easy cookie recipes. It takes some understanding of the baking process, tools, techniques, and ingredients.
It also helps to follow these five rules:


1. Understand the nature and characteristics of each ingredient - flour, eggs, fats & oils, sweeteners, leaveners, flavors, and even decorating materials like fondant, marzipan - Each contributes to the appearance and texture of homemade cookies in its own way.

2. Measure baking ingredients accurately by using proper tools and techniques. This is part of "mise en place" - a French term means accurate selection and measurement of ingredients.

3. Do not overmix your cookie dough. Overmixing encourages gluten development, resulting in dense and tough cookies.

4. Do not overbake. Closely monitor oven temperature and baking time.

5. Always bake your cookies with passion. :-)

As what people been saying, u cannot teach anyone the fifth steps. Enjoy your bakery!

(source: http://www.cookies-in-motion.com/)