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    Cookie Baking 101

    Nov 03, 2020 6 minutes
    Compiled by Carolyn Grillo

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    EIGHT KEY INGREDIENTS AND HOW TO STORE THEM

    1 UNSALTED BUTTER

    When baking cookies, we reach for unsalted butter. The sodium level of salted butter can vary, and we prefer to control the seasoning of our cookies. Plus, salted butter almost always contains more water than unsalted butter, which can interfere with gluten development.

    Store: Butter can pick up off-flavors when it’s refrigerated for longer than a month, and it can turn rancid as its fat oxidizes. For longer storage (up to four months), move it to the freezer.

    2 COCOA POWDER

    When we want big chocolate flavor, we turn to cocoa powder, which has a higher proportion of flavorful cocoa solids, ounce for ounce, than any other form of chocolate. There are two styles: Dutch-processed and natural. The Dutching process—treating the cocoa with an alkalizing

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