Nutty Chocolate Chippers— and how to bake them best

CUISINE & CULTURE | ANGELINA@ANGELINALARUE.COM Food bytes
  • Nutty Chocolate Chippe
    Nutty Chocolate Chippe
  • NUMBER ONE TIP While butter needs to be slightly soft for the mixer to cut through it, the texture of the cookie will hold up better if we leave the butter as firm as possible when creaming it with the sugar. | ANGELINA LaRUE PHOTO
    NUMBER ONE TIP While butter needs to be slightly soft for the mixer to cut through it, the texture of the cookie will hold up better if we leave the butter as firm as possible when creaming it with the sugar. | ANGELINA LaRUE PHOTO

    I get lots of questions about how to keep cookies from flattening and spreading out, and how to retain their gooeyness. So I’ve compiled a list of all the solutions I’ve come to learn by my own trials and errors.

    I typically have success baking cookies when butter is used as the fat in the recipe, versus oil. Some folks say they like the texture of a cookie made with shortening, which works well, t…