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Connie · 10-03-2005, 07:49 PM

My guess would be you used butter or margarine. When I used that in my chocolate chip cookies, they got flatter than pancakes. Ever since, I use Crisco, even if the recipe calls for margarine or butter. Makes a world of difference!

Hamoth · 10-03-2005, 08:19 PM

sounds like somone confused baking powder and baking soda...do the cookies look all "fried" and are they brittle and dark brown?

yorkieangel · 10-04-2005, 05:32 AM

Seems like everyone hit the answers already:

Use shortening (butter flavored shortening is OK too)
Don't melt the butter (if you use it) except to slightly soften from rock hard stage.
Don't grease pan.
make sure you don't mix up baking soda and baking powder.

Those are probably the biggest culprits of thin spreading cookies

By the way.. What is a RANGER??????

sunshine22 · 10-04-2005, 05:45 AM

As a kid, one time, my sister made homemade chocolate chip cookies. She found the flour wrapped in a plastic ziploc bag in the pantry. She baked the cookies and they came out very thin and flat. She and her friends ate them anyways. They all had digestive upset. When my mom found out she said that we were out of flour. Where did you get the flour?
It turns out that she made the cookies with wallpaper paste.

fourdez · 10-04-2005, 02:38 PM

What works best for me is the cookie isle at the supermarket.. Sorry, I'm no help..

jshowe · 10-04-2005, 05:26 PM

Hubby likes just the cookie dough - I don't bother baking them anymore. yum...

10-04-2005, 05:32 AM	#18
yorkieangel Rescue Angel Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: md Posts: 1,530	Seems like everyone hit the answers already: Use shortening (butter flavored shortening is OK too) Don't melt the butter (if you use it) except to slightly soften from rock hard stage. Don't grease pan. make sure you don't mix up baking soda and baking powder. Those are probably the biggest culprits of thin spreading cookies By the way.. What is a RANGER?????? __________________ Yorkieangel

10-04-2005, 05:45 AM	#19
sunshine22 YT Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 388	As a kid, one time, my sister made homemade chocolate chip cookies. She found the flour wrapped in a plastic ziploc bag in the pantry. She baked the cookies and they came out very thin and flat. She and her friends ate them anyways. They all had digestive upset. When my mom found out she said that we were out of flour. Where did you get the flour? It turns out that she made the cookies with wallpaper paste. __________________ I my little Sunshine ...!

10-04-2005, 02:38 PM	#20
fourdez Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Rockland county, NY Posts: 1,306	What works best for me is the cookie isle at the supermarket.. Sorry, I'm no help.. __________________ ********************* Nedda & My Girls Desi & Millie & my boy Ricky

10-04-2005, 05:26 PM	#21
jshowe Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Michigan Posts: 47	Hubby likes just the cookie dough - I don't bother baking them anymore. yum... __________________ Shelley and the Boys Max and Milo

10-03-2005, 07:49 PM	#16
Connie Loved by Maddie & Libby Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: North Dakota Posts: 10,732	My guess would be you used butter or margarine. When I used that in my chocolate chip cookies, they got flatter than pancakes. Ever since, I use Crisco, even if the recipe calls for margarine or butter. Makes a world of difference!

10-03-2005, 08:19 PM	#17
Hamoth YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 358	sounds like somone confused baking powder and baking soda...do the cookies look all "fried" and are they brittle and dark brown?