Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
A discipline that I do not have is to take it out when it says to take them out. They seemed to soft, so I left em in. They taste great but they were too crispy. They were fine when they were cooling but when completely cooled, bricks.
Keep practicing. It is through your errors that you learn. I always take it out and test it at the lowest time given for removal from the oven. If it says 20-30 minutes, I take it out at 20 minutes. Also, get yourself a timer. And set it for the lower number. I would rather have cookies undercooked, than overcooked. And who doesn't love cookie dough. Remember, the residual heat continues the cooking process.
By the time you get the practice of timing down to an art, your family is going to have a lot of great cookies and other goodies.
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