Open up the oven, pull out the rack a bit, and push the sides of the cookie very lightly with a spatula or your finger. If the edge stays firm and doesn’t fall inwards, then your cookies are done. If you leave a noticeable indention, then your cookies likely need a few minutes more in the oven.
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1 Answer. Undercooked cookies are still edible, don’t toss them! Some people prefer chocolate chip cookies underdone, but you can’t know for sure that the egg has fully cooked (although that wouldn’t bother me one bit unless the source was shaky).
Generally, cookies are baked in a moderate oven — 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) — for 8 to 12 minutes, depending on the size of the cookie. For chewy cookies, allow them to cool on the baking sheet for 3 to 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Most cookies are still soft when done (they harden as they cool) and will continue to bake on the cookie sheet once removed from the oven. Remove cookies from the cookie sheet as soon as they are firm enough to transfer, using a spatula, to a cooling rack or paper towels to finish cooling.
Cookies bake quickly — usually within 8 to 10 minutes — but sometimes it’s hard to tell when they’re baked through. Better to be on the safe side and remove them when they’re slightly underdone than burn them.You can even rebake cookies long after they’re cool to restore crispness or freshness.
Reasons cookies are browning too quickly and raw in the middle. Your cookies might be browning too quickly because of:your oven: it might not be preheating to the set temperature and might be going way above that or you are setting your oven to a very high temperature, too high for your cookies.
Arrange cookies on baking sheets 3 inches apart. Bake for 11-12 minutes, until lightly browned around the edges. Make sure you rotate the baking sheet halfway through bake time. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating.
Cookie temperatures fluctuate, with some recipes as low as 300 degrees Fahrenheit, and a few as high as 425 degrees Fahrenheit, but most recipes land on 375 or 350 to evenly bake the entirety of the cookie.
The undercooked cookie only has the cracks around the perimeter. Wait to pull the cookies out of the oven until you see those fine cracks in the center. If you wait until the cookie changes color, you’ve waited too long.
Why Chocolate Chips Sink
It’s really that simple. Chocolate chips sink when they are too heavy to stay suspended in the batter. The consistency of a batter is most often just part of the characteristics of the recipe you’re making, and there’s no way around that. A thin batter just won’t hold up chocolate chips.
The Mistake: If your tray of cookies bakes up unevenly—with some cookies tough and overdone and others too soft and raw—it’s probably because the cookie dough balls you started with were too varied in size. How to Fix it: As long as the cookies are not tooth-breakingly hard or raw, you can still enjoy them.
You might also want to rotate your trays. My cookies was underdone / under baked after a bake for about 7-8 minutes. To save these cookies, I let them completely cool, and then bake them again in 160 degrees C for about 5 minutes, and then leave it in the oven after I turn it off.
In short, your cookies may have burned on the bottom because your oven temperature readings are off, your cookie sheet is too dark, your cookies were baked on a lower rack, the heat was too high, or you baked the cookies right on the sheet without any parchment paper.
When you start decorating your cookies before they are completely 100% cool, the icing will melt. Make sure each batch is cooled before you begin to add the icing. Our Test Kitchen recommends decorating your cookies the day after you bake ’em.
about 20-24 hours
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The icing will take about 20-24 hours to fully set. I prefer to decorate my cookies the day before I need them and let them sit in an airtight container overnight. You’ll want to avoid stacking the cookies until the icing is completely dry too.
Assuming the detail is a bit of simple piping on each cookie, allow at least a minute per cookie. Then, let them dry overnight. So, for about 2 dozen, simply decorated cookies, I would allow 5 hours of baking/decorating with 2 hours and 10 minutes plus overnight of inactive/rest time.
The simple answer to this question is, meet in the middle. Cookies should (almost) always be baked on the middle rack of the oven. The middle rack offers the most even heat and air circulation which helps cookies bake consistently.
LOWER THE TEMPERATURE
“When you bake at a lower temperature, you will get that perfect cookie with a soft center and crisp exterior,” she adds. Just make sure you increase baking time by a couple of minutes or you will end up with gooey underbaked cookies.
Baking and Testing for Doneness
Preheat oven 10 to 15 minutes before baking the first sheet or pan of cookies. Check oven temperature with an oven thermometer. When testing for doneness, your best guides for cookies are time and appearance. Always use a timer.
How to Tell When Sugar Cookies Are Done. Recipes for sugar cookie cutouts often call for baking until the edges are firm or set. If that’s the case with your recipe, your sugar cookies should be set (not brown) and no longer appear soft and melty.
For sugar cookies or delicate cookies, look for slightly golden edges/sides. In the case of my chocolate chip cookies, the edges get quite golden as they cook and the center stays more pale. It’s very easy to over bake sugar cookies because of how pale they are.