Jessica Badalana
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5 Jun
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behind some paywall? Is there the true Zoe Francois perfect cookie? Or is like, you know, is that idea sort of absurd to you? Because all of these cookies are great cookies, and you might want one or the other at a different time?
Well, I mean, I think for anyone who hasn't had the Levan cookie, they're large. They're like just set around the edges. But the inside is basically like a ball of raw cookie dough.
I know our test kitchen director, Sarah, was very inspired by the technique. So she applied it to her recipe for oatmeal and date smash cookies, which you can find on the King Arthur website, as well as linked in the show notes, and which is one of my very favorite new recipes of ours.
Amazing. Great.
Wait, we sell oven mitts? I need new oven mitts.
Calibo.
And of course, if you have a baking question that simply cannot wait, you can always reach out to our Baker's Hotline via phone, email, or online chat. Just go to kingarthurbaking.com slash bakers dash hotline. That's kingarthurbaking.com slash bakers dash hotline. Or call us 855-371-2253. That's 2253 as in bake. I can't wait to hear what people ask us. We are ready.
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Well, here's my theory.
I have an idea. At the count of three, let's name the piece of equipment that we hope they're using in the kitchen when they're making their cookies, okay?
So at King Arthur, we always encourage bakers to bake using weight rather than volume, which is like cups and tablespoons. That's because no two people scoop the same weight of flour when they scoop up a cup of flour. So I might scoop a cup of flour that's 120 grams. David might scoop up a cup of flour that's 130 grams. You know, it's true for cookies.
It's true for all baked goods that getting a scale will ensure that your baked good comes out the same every time or at least eliminate one of the huge variables.
I do too. I use my scale every single day. Greatest baking tool you can own for sure. But I think, I mean, there's other potential things that could be going on. And I think, David, you might have a thought about if it's not, you know, say she is measuring with a scale.
I mean, find your bliss, right? You know, I think there are plenty of good quality brands of chocolate chips out there. Semi-sweet chocolate is going to be sweeter than bittersweet chocolate. The specific percentage of cacao in bittersweet versus semi-sweet chocolate varies from brand to brand. But you can assume that semi-sweet chocolate is always going to be a bit sweeter than bittersweet.
Really comes down to, you know, personal preference. And yours is... Well, it's a good question. I like bittersweet chocolate in my cookies, but my children like semi-sweet chocolate, you know, and honestly, often what I'm doing is like dredging up whatever bits and bobs of chocolate I have in my pantry.
So it'll be like some chocolate chips, some chopped chocolate, you know, everybody in the pool. And you know what? It always turns out pretty good. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, we have.
Interesting. I actually have never met anyone who... Have I ever met anyone who doesn't like a chocolate chip cookie? I mean, I think the chipless chocolate chip cookie is... Well, I think it's marketing, right? If you want a cookie without chocolate chips, just make a different cookie. Don't make a chocolate chip cookie without chocolate chips. That's just sad.
I feel for you, Flora. I mean, who amongst us has not filched a little bit of... David, you're rolling your eyes like you've never eaten raw cookie dough.
I mean, it is hard to resist. In fact, my kids, whenever I make cookie dough, they would just like to eat... I was like, do you want me to bake you a cookie tonight? And they're like, I'll just have a ball of dough. But you really shouldn't eat raw cookie dough. And there's a couple of reasons for it.
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