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Deconstructing Recipes

Baking cookies – What happens in the oven?

Are your cookies in the oven (or did they just come out)? And are you wondering what it is that transforms the uncooked raw dough into crispy or chewy cookies? Of course, the heat causes these transformations, but...

December 23, 2020

11 min read

Deconstructing Recipes

Making Trini Kurma – Short crust + Ginger sugar science

No matter where you look, there’s a good chance you’ll find some surprising science hidden in a seemingly not sciency dish. That is definitely the case for these kurma, which we lovingly call “Trini...

November 14, 2020

9 min read

shortbread cookie different sugar content

Deconstructing Recipes

The Science of Shortbread – Role of Flour, Butter, Sugar

Feel like eating a cookie? But want something simple, with only a few ingredients? Shortbread cookies are what you should be looking at. You can make this cookie style with as little as three ingredients. Mix flour...

April 20, 2020

8 min read

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

Understanding Ingredients

How to Decide Which Cocoa Powder to Buy (+ Taste Test Comparison)

If you’d ask me to bake cookies, cakes or pies, chances are it will be a chocolate flavoured one. A good dark brown, slightly bitter, not to sweet, chocolate cookie or cake is almost always a guarantee for success...

August 20, 2019

6 min read

whole wheat pastr, all purpose and cake flour

Comparing Ingredients

Wheat Flour Analysis – How to Choose the Right Type of Flour

If you’ve ever moved between countries or went to a specialized (online) baking store, you might have experienced it: flour analysis paralysis. There are so many different types of flour out there that it’s...

February 26, 2019

13 min read

almond tuiles baked for three different durations

Deconstructing Recipes

Almond tuile science – Flexible when hot, crispy when cold

If you’re a fan of cooking/baking shows you will have probably seen them come by: almond tuiles. Pretty, delicate and tasty cookies, but, the special bit is that they’re very flexible when they come out of...

November 27, 2018

4 min read

Understanding Ingredients

Speculaaskruiden – A Dutch spice mix for pepernoten

Every year, at the start of autumn, all over the USA (and the internet), pumpkin spice mixes pop up. Even in Europe you can see it popping up in autumn, though not (yet) as prevalent. Pumpkin spice though isn’t...

October 12, 2018

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 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

Tag - cookies

Baking cookies – What happens in the oven?

Making Trini Kurma – Short crust + Ginger sugar science

The Science of Shortbread – Role of Flour, Butter, Sugar

Brown butter is a flavor bomb for cookies

How to Decide Which Cocoa Powder to Buy (+ Taste Test Comparison)

Wheat Flour Analysis – How to Choose the Right Type of Flour

Almond tuile science – Flexible when hot, crispy when cold

Speculaaskruiden – A Dutch spice mix for pepernoten

The Science of Cookie Decoration – a Guide to Icing Cookies

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

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