Since I will go to my brother’s pastry shop and help him, let’s introduce the cookie-baking process I have experienced with my comments.
Simple recipes
From my experience, baking a pastry is not very complicated. Although making various types of cakes can be confusing and requires careful management, each recipe is often simple.
One typical example is baking cookies, which are one of the simplest baked goods. You can easily make it at home with a microwave oven.
The only difference is the amount. Let’s look at how I processed cookies.
The process of baking cookies
After making and shaping the cookie dough and letting it cool, I coated the cookie edges with sugar, as shown in the following photo. It makes the first bite taste sweeter.
If the dough is too cold, the sugar will not stick, so we have to wait until it reaches a moderate temperature. However, there is often no time to wait, so we often forcibly push it and add sugar.
Then, I cut the cookie with a cookie slicer. It is a fun task. We can do it rhythmically.
The edges of the cookie dough bar would be baked together, and later, they would become my reward.
After cutting, I placed the cookies on the baking pan. Since cookies puff up a little while baking, they need some space. However, we want to bake a lot at once, so we need to place them as close as possible. Sometimes, it sticks to the neighbor. In that case, we forcibly break them. There were also many forceful measures.
After baking in the oven, there was a nice smell of wheat.
By the way, for darker cookies, such as chocolate ones (as shown in the photo above), it is hard to distinguish whether they are baked well by their color. With usual white-dough cookies, turning brown is the indicator of being baked well. However, it cannot apply to black ones.
In that case, I heard that the only way is to actually eat it and find out. In reality, it seems that baking other white-colored cookies together enables us to tell whether they are baked without tasting them.
Finally, I bagged them. Although it looks like a repetitive, boring task, it became fun when I could pack the bag rhythmically using both hands. I could bag one in less than a second after I discovered an efficient way.
Conclusion
That was the process of baking cookies.
You can do it without any difficulty. Its accumulation may become expertise.
Anyway, I will enjoy learning to bake today as well.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
