Some tips and tricks to make cooking easier and your food taste better. Please feel free to contribute some of your own cooking tips. We'll will try to post them. Baking with Eggs When baking, always bring eggs to room temperature first. Cold eggs may cause the batter to curdle, which could affect the cake's texture. To quickly bring eggs to room temperature, let them soak in a bowl of warm water for about a half hour. Cookies A way to make all cookie recipes yield stay soft cookies. In dough, add one box of vanilla instant pudding (just the powder). Cookies stay soft and chewy! Another way to keep cookies soft in a cookie jar is to add a piece of bread. Cookies will stay soft, but the bread will get hard. |