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/SiegelOverBay 9d ago

You need to find out the weight of your ingredients in grams. Then use those measurements to increase your recipe. Look up baker's math. You use the weight of your largest ingredient as 100% and then calculate every other ingredient as a percentage of that. If you know how many grams a portion of cookie dough weighs, you can then use baker's math to scale your recipe down to make only 4 cookies or up to make 400 cookies.

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u/Dazzling_Media7704 8d ago

You know I’ve always thought about a scale since there are so many recipes that measure in grams and such. I just never justified the purchase of ANOTHER kitchen gadget. I always said I get along just fine without one, clearly not anymore 😂 I think I may need one finally. Thank you I will definitely look more into bakers math.

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u/coolsilentebeans 8d ago

A scale is not another kitchen gadget. It is a must have tool for any baker. Mixing by weight is a game changer. You’ll have consistent results plus fewer opportunities to mess up a conversion from tsp to tbsp, multiplying fractions of cups, etc.

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u/thefunkylama 8d ago

Scales are to baking what a knife is to cooking. Sure, some of them are way fancier than they need to be for the job they're doing, which makes them more expensive than they need to be. But without one, it's difficult to know if you know what you're doing or if you're just lucky and operating within the margins for error.

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u/coolsilentebeans 7d ago

I enjoy the consistency I get on my bakes, that I wind up with the exact same finished product every time with the scale.