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Cooking & Baking
In reply to the discussion: For people whose cookies turn brick hard after a day or so. [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)24. I can cream the wet ingredients with a fork or spoon.
The mixer just makes things faster, I am sort of a lazy cook that look for shortcuts.
I live in Florida, so neither low humidity or high altitude is an issue for me.
I will mix up a batch of your cookie dough, substituting pecans for walnuts but leaving all else the same and see how that works out. I used to use much more shortening (around 3/4 cup) and baking powder and still the cookies hardened after sitting for more than a day. But I also used butter, which you do not.
Hard cookies after sitting is a pretty common complaint online, you may want to go into some of those forums.
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I used to bake as a teen. No longer. I don't think I even have a cookie sheet
applegrove
May 2019
#20
I bake Chocolate Chip, Chocolate/Chip Pecan, Oatmeal/Raisin/Cranberry and Snickerdoodle.
Blue_true
May 2019
#14
Brown sugar and shortening in the place of white sugar and butter are supposed to soften them.
Blue_true
May 2019
#15
I have been toying with the idea of using Flaxseed oil to replace some butter
Blue_true
May 2019
#30