Trader Joe's Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe - Whisking Mama (2024)

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How long do you cook Trader Joe's cookie dough? ›

Frying: 350F for 9 minutes (thawed) or 12 minutes (frozen) Musings: Because sometimes you just need to treat yourself! Absolutely love keeping a package of this dough on hand for the moments nothing but a warm, fresh, gooey cookie will do. They freeze great and it's easy to make just one or two at a time.

"Overmixing your dough will result in flatter, crispier cookies," Cowan said. If you overmix, you will end up aerating (adding air to) the dough, which causes the cookies to rise and then fall, leaving you with flat cookies.

For a hand mixer, you will need to beat for 5 or 6 minutes. If you are using a stand mixer, it will be approximately 3 minutes on medium speed (tested on a KitchenAid, speed 4). If you have a Bosch mixer, use the dough hook and beat for 3 minutes on speed 3.

Cornstarch helps product soft and thick cookies. Using more brown sugar than white sugar results in a moister, softer cookie. An extra egg yolk increases chewiness. Rolling the cookie dough balls to be tall and lumpy instead of wide and smooth gives the cookies a bakery-style textured thickness.

Generally speaking, you should chill your cookie dough before baking it. But for how long? You want to give it at least 2 hours to chill through.

You may notice visible pockets of flour, streaks of butter, or uneven coloration. When overmixed, though, cookie dough will feel dense, greasy, heavy, and warm. It may be tough to roll out or work with, just like overmixed pie dough.

You may know what you get when you overmix cake batter: a dense cake with tough texture (and maybe some unappetizing gluey streaks as well).

Overmixing your batter can lead to runny cookies.

The fluidity made for a cookie that baked quickly and spread out more widely than a properly creamed batter usually would. You could overmix the batter at any point, but overcreaming occurs when you're combining the butter, sugar, and vanilla.

This is really up to you. If you're short on time, try and squeeze in at least half an hour if you can. 30 minutes will do the trick if you're simply looking to avoid your cookies spreading all over the place. If you have the luxury of chilling the dough overnight to develop flavor, go for it.

How to fix overmixed cookie dough? ›

Overmixing the dough

If you overmix the dough, the cookies will be dry and crumbly. The best way to fix this is to add more liquid to the dough. This can be done by adding milk, water, or even melted butter. You may also need to add more flour to the dough if it is too wet.

Usually it takes anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes of beating eggs and sugar using an electric mixer to reach ribbon stage.

Also, underbaking them by a minute or 2 will help them retain a dense, chewy bite, explains Jenny McCoy, pastry baking arts chef-instructor at the Institute for Culinary Education in New York. Adding more moisture to your dough in the form of extra butter, egg yolks, or brown sugar will make your cookies even softer.

Baking soda is typically used for chewy cookies, while baking powder is generally used for light and airy cookies. Since baking powder is comprised of a number of ingredients (baking soda, cream of tartar, cornstarch, etc.), using it instead of pure baking soda will affect the taste of your cookies.

Sweet on Trader Joe's: Chocolate Chip Cookies | Bake at 350°

While you can't eat the raw sugar cookie dough from Trader Joe's (Pillsbury is safe to eat raw), it has the quickest bake time of the two (10 vs. 17 minutes), meaning you're slightly closer to sinking your teeth into a wildly good cookie that tastes like you mixed up this batch of cookies yourself.

Cooking Trader Joe's pizza dough:

Ideally, your Trader Joe's pizza dough temperature should be room temperature before starting to work with it. A hot oven equals a tasty pizza which is why the instructions in our recipe call for an oven temp of 475°. Also, this temperature works well for a pizza stone or a sheet pan.