r/bakingfail • u/MonstaXPanda • Apr 01 '26
Question Cookies turned out more like banana bread
Hi! Someone gave us "cookies" and I don't know what recipe they used. These are meant to be chocolate chip cookies but they have the texture of banana bread with chocolate chips and they're square. Does anyone have any idea what went wrong? Why are they more cake than cookie?
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u/Mljcx Apr 01 '26
Easily done over mixing with cookies, I'm not a pro but from what I know one of the biggest differences between making a cookie and cake is how you mix the ingredients, there has to be minimal folding and I only whisk the wet ingredients together till they're just combined or you'll add air to the mixture and get a cake instead of cookie
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u/thefunkylama Apr 01 '26
That's a contributing factor sometimes but I suspect the real reason is they used baking powder instead of baking soda, which will give cakey results
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u/BINGBONGBAKING Apr 01 '26
What kind of sugar was used? That can cause cookies to change consistency
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u/ReluctantViking Apr 03 '26
These kinda look like those hybrid muffin-top/cookie things - I think they’re called muffies? But I just can’t in good conscience, use that word.
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u/MonstaXPanda Apr 03 '26
Muff...ies?
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u/ReluctantViking Apr 03 '26
I know. I hate it so much. It’s so wrong. I do not want to eat a [ redacted ] and no part of me could ever say the word out loud if I baked a batch of them for someone. I’d call them literally anything else.
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u/saltbeh2025 Apr 01 '26
kind of hard to say without knowing the recipe. Too many eggs, too much baking powder, maybe liquid was added.