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Oatmeal cookies? What keeps cookies together?

splucy
splucy Posts: 353
edited December 2024 in Recipes
So I am looking in to whipping up my own recipe for some oatmeal cookies.

I am just wondering what it is in the regular recipes that keeps the dough together? Is it butter? the eggs? I would hate to make them and they just instantly fall apart.

I am hoping to make them vanilla flavoured with vanilla beans and once they are cooked I want to flip them upside down and put a layer of melted 85% cocoa dark chocolate underneath ^_^

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  • splucy
    splucy Posts: 353
    anyone know? I don't want to try being stingey on an ingredient which results in them falling apart...
  • Evelyn_Gorfram
    Evelyn_Gorfram Posts: 706 Member
    It's partly the eggs, and it's partly the "stickiness" of the flour (you can actually make a wallpaper-type paste out of just flour and water). Oatmeal is pretty sticky too. As is sugar. And they all get extra sticky when they are mixed up together into a dough. :)

    I'd just make up the dough, and then add more water or milk if it wasn't sticky enough (& more flour if it was too sticky).

    Be sure to grease the pan well so you can flip them, or better yet use baking parchment.

    Good luck - they sound delish! :)
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