Tag - cookies

Cookies are great to explore science with. It’s easy to adjust recipes and see differences happening right in front of your eyes. We have a great collection of sciency posts on cookies for exactly that reason. Scroll through the cookie science archives and learn about the baking process, influence of ingredients and on cookie science in general.

stack of brown butter almond tuiles
Deconstructing Recipes

Brown butter is a flavor bomb for cookies

You can make a great cookie with sugar, butter and flour (that is, shortbread), you can make a delicate crispy almond tuile by adding some egg and almonds. But, your tuile (and a lot of other cookies as well!) become so...

December 17, 2019
5 min read
zucchini courgette cookies with half of them iced with icing sugar icing

The Science of Cookie Decoration – a Guide to Icing Cookies

Every Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine’s day or any other big holiday decorated cookies will start popping up all over the internet. Decorated pumpkins, heart, eggs and trees with beautiful colours. Here at...

March 9, 2018
8 min read
Hydrox (left) vs. Oreo (right)

Hydrox vs. Oreo Cookies – What’s the Difference?

When entering the cookie isle in most large American supermarkets you will probably run into this large blue section, full of similar packages. Full of Oreo cookies. It’s one of the biggest cookie brands in the US...

October 18, 2017
5 min read