Fixing Issues When Making Cookie Dough

Fixing Issues When Making Cookie Dough - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. I am going to talk to you today about a problem people have sometimes with cookie dough. Sometimes the cookie dough is a little bit sticky and difficult to roll out. So how can you avoid those problems? Well there are two things you can adjust with, two solutions. One: adjusting the fat. Now think about this; if you have used butter in your cookie, which is going to make the cookie taste fabulous, and you have worked the dough in the electric mixer and then you have taken it out of the mixer and you have patted it together and you have wrapped it up, and now you are trying to roll it flat, think about what happens to that butter. All of the friction in there, all of the handling, the butter is going to warm up. And how does warm butter feel? Sticky. So if you have got nice texture to your dough, but it is just sticking to the rolling pin, take that dough, put it in the refrigerator for twenty minutes, and let the butter firm up. Then you will not have a sticky problem. Sometimes the sticky problem is not the butter, sometimes it is actually the dough itself, it is just kind of gooey all around. In that case you need to add more flour to it. It is probable that you have used a flour that has maybe a lower amount of protein in it, and you have added the same amount of liquid, and as a result, you have got sort of a soupier, wetter kind of dough. If that is the case, you just add flour to it, and then work the dough that way. So, two solutions: one, adjust the flour amount and two, chill the butter.