This week for our Genius Hour project, we decided to bake chocolate chip cookies. First, we cooked a pot of butter on the stove until it was golden brown. Then, we took it off the stove and added light brown and white sugar to our crisp solution. From there, we mixed the ingredients until they were combined. After that, we added an egg yolk, a whole egg, and vanilla. Then, we added some all-purpose flour, along with baking soda. Again, we mixed all the ingredients together until the dough was consistent throughout. After making certain that we got rid of all clumps, we added some semi-sweet chocolate chips. Now, it was on to the baking process. We scooped our cookie dough into balls and rolled them between our hands, which proved to be a challenge considering how perfect we wanted them to turn out. For us, this took the longest in terms of preparation. From that point, we added a few more pieces of chocolate chips on top of each cookie and chilled them. After removing them from the fridge, we baked them for roughly twelve minutes. Our baking process was complete immediately following the addition of sea salt to the surface of the cookies. Overall, we were pleased with the results of this project. It wasn’t too difficult, which may be an indication that we could move on to perfecting more challenging recipes. However, we made some mistakes here and there. We forgot to add some salt to the original mixture, which could have potentially affected the results. Fortunately, the addition of sea salt to the top of each cookie recovered for that lack of flavor within the dough itself. Even though we messed up a portion of the recipe, we still managed to turn it into a learning experience. This mistake forced us to come up with alternatives to ingredients, while also providing the same level of satisfaction when eaten. Which, ironically, is what makes a good chef. It’s one thing to be able to follow a set of instructions, but it’s a different challenge to find what is wrong and correct it.
Ingredients: ¾ cup butter 1 cup light brown sugar ¼ cup white sugar 2 eggs 1 tbsp vanilla 1 ¾ spooned all-purpose flour ¾ tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips or 8 oz chopped chocolate
3 Comments
3/13/2024 07:43:35 am
I like how you seasoned your sweets with salt form the sea to improve your smack and savor! >:)
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Logan
3/13/2024 09:57:23 am
Who are you?
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3/20/2024 07:15:45 am
Cookies look great! Good work. The bake sale is also a fantastic idea.
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