mad tasty: Bring hard cookies back to life

02 December 2009

Bring hard cookies back to life

While reading my November/December ReadyMade Magazine, I was excited to find the following tip:

"If you've made cookies that end up being hard as rocks, just stick them in a resealable plastic bag with a slice of bread. Let it sit overnight. The next day, your now super-soft cookies will have soaked up all the moisture from the bread, fooling everyone into thinking you're a cookie-baking genius."

I am definitely trying this out the next time I make cookies since this always inevitably happens to me.

2 comments:

KatyDecember 2, 2009 at 11:36 AM
This tip totally works! It's my fave because I hate hard cookies.

It's also good to put bread in initially with chewy cookies so they stay that way.
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JaBootaayDecember 3, 2009 at 11:28 AM
hmmm....I wonder if this trick will for for this cake I made last night. Gonna try when I get home!
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02 December 2009

Bring hard cookies back to life

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