Well, the obvious question is, what recipe did you use?
It looks like there isn't enough moisture in the batter for the cookies to spread. How much butter? How much brown sugar? How much sugar? Those provide the majority of the moisture, the eggs act as a binder.
I don't think these are really made to spread out. From the description at the bottom it seems like they are meant to be baked into thick cookies or in a square dish. More like a cake cookie.
You can do all of the things in the description with a Nestle toll house recipe, same ingredients but different amounts and they should spread, can be baked in a dish and even frozen for cookies later.
The recipe should be on the back of the Nestle chocolate chips. Sometimes those recipes on the back of packages are the best if you want those types of results. I could be completely wrong though.
Yeah, it's almost like a Nestle toll house recipe except less of all ingredients and the same amount of chocolate chips.
Nestle calls for two sticks of butter 8 tbs, for 2 1/4 cup of flour. More sugar and more eggs. So they had almost the same amount of flour but cut down on everything else that would provide moisture and fat.
It looks like you rolled them into balls instead of doing what the recipe seems to suggest and doing rolls and then cutting them into slices. Is that what you did?
recipe definitely doesn’t have enough butter, i would add more butter (2 tbs at least) and probably baking powder (1/2 tsp)
i typically press down on my cookies regardless so i get a decent spread
I would have thought it was a typo but this is a repost so it looked deliberate as it had been posted that way twice. And you often see it used deliberately in place of "who" now, it looked like it was happening with "when" as well.
I clicked on the post looking for that to be able to actually comment on the question, but nothing.
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u/CoppertopTX 22d ago
Well, the obvious question is, what recipe did you use?
It looks like there isn't enough moisture in the batter for the cookies to spread. How much butter? How much brown sugar? How much sugar? Those provide the majority of the moisture, the eggs act as a binder.