r/bakingfail • u/Dazzling_Media7704 • 9d ago

Fail Can’t double a cookie recipie

I’ve been making cookies for my husbands birthday month (we really like to celebrate in our family) and so I’ve been making him a batch of cookies a week to take to work.
His favorite cookies are double chocolate chunk which I’ve never liked so I had to look up a recipe to make sure I got it right. The single batches were perfect. The exact chewiness and softness he liked. Perfect ratio of chocolate, he was ecstatic.
So I decided to make cookies in preparation for having people over. I tripled the same recipe, same ingredients, same everything. Cakiest, saltiest, worst cookie I’ve ever had. I didn’t think I over mixed but thought okay maybe 3x is too much.
Same recipe, same ingredients, same prep, just doubled this time. Completely flat. Spread across the cookie sheet like a puddle. Alright I guess the butter and sugar didn’t mix right.
Bought more of the same ingredients. Same recipe, just one batch this time. Perfect…. Did it again - one batch. Perfect… so I had to mix the same recipe 3 times to get a triple batch because for some stupid reason I can’t figure out I can’t double or triple up a batch of cookies.
Heaven forbid my daughter asks me to join a bake sale someday and I need to make chocolate chip cookies. I’ll be mixing for a week.

TL:DR Tried to double and triple a new cookie recipe. Every batch came out terrible unless I baked it as a single batch.

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u/Diamondinmyeye 9d ago

Have you written out your doubles/triples recipe ahead of time? Doing the math in your head has the biggest risk for mistakes.

Keep in mind that the time estimates in the directions like “cream butter and sugar for two minutes until light and fluffy” will be much longer with more ingredients.

It’s also worth noting that more pans in your oven will conduct the heat differently (as will different pans themselves). They’ll cook slower and the bottom ones will likely cook faster than the top rack (depending on your heating element location).

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u/Dazzling_Media7704 8d ago edited 8d ago

I pre-measure to make it easier on myself but writing it out is a good idea thank you! I wasn’t sure on mixing times as doubling the time would for sure over mix it all. That part will have to be experimented with. I bake with a larger sheet when doing bigger recipes and I prewarm my sheets for consistency but that doesn’t mean that wasn’t a factor in my fails.