Every post tagged “baking science”.
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Caster sugar is plain white sugar with a finer crystal. What it's called in the US, Canada and Australia, the ten-second food-processor substitute, and when grain size genuinely changes a biscuit versus when nobody can tell the difference.
Chilling cookie dough does three jobs: it firms the butter, hydrates the flour and deepens the flavour. But the two-hour rule is lazy. Here's what chilling actually does, when you can skip it, and the minimum times that work when the party starts in three hours.
Spreading cookies leave clues. This diagnostic checklist matches eight causes - butter temperature, sugar type, flour measuring, greased trays, oven heat and more - to the symptom each one produces, so you can fix the thing that is actually ruining your batch.