Do You Actually Need To Chill Your Cookie Dough?

Chilling your cookie dough may require more time, but it is an extra step that is worth every second—here's why.

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00:00Do you actually need to chill your cookie dough before you bake it?

00:03Yes, you really, really should. Let me show you why.

00:07This is all the proof you need right here. This is the same cookie dough.

00:11This one chilled for one hour, this one chilled for 24 hours and look at the difference.

00:15It will help bring all of your ingredients to the same temperature

00:19and that's important because if your butter is really warm but your eggs are really cold,

00:23your dough is not going to know what to do in the oven and it's going to spread in some weird

00:27spots. It's going to rise in other spots and it'll make it a much more uniform cookie if all the

00:33ingredients are at the same temperature. I know what you're thinking. Do I really need to go the

00:37full 24 hours? Maybe not the full 24 hours but definitely longer than an hour. I think the sweet

00:44mark is around four hours. The sugar had time to soften or to release moisture and help the cookie

00:49soften. It's going to make it taste a lot better. So patience is key. Let your cookies marinate.