Refrigerate Cookie Dough for Tastier Cookies with Better Texture

If you're planning on baking some holiday cookies, you might want to get a head start a little earlier. Refrigerating the dough ahead of time not only makes it easier to bake whenever you get a chance to, it also improves the cookies.

Many cookie recipes suggest you refrigerate for a short time before baking, but Kathleen Purvis's research for The Telegraph has found that refrigerating for more than a day can give the dough more time for the flavors to develop:

The difference starts with the liquid in the egg, which hydrates the starch in flour. Giving the flour more time to absorb that liquid makes the dough firmer, but it also lets enzymes in the flour and the egg yolk break down carbohydrates into the simple sugars fructose and glucose. Separately, they taste sweeter and they caramelize faster when baked.

Try this with doughs based on flour, sugars, butter, and egg, or ones with strong flavors (e.g., peanut butter cookies)?but not those that must be cooked immediately, like meringues and macaroons.

For more insight into refrigerating cookie dough, cookie baking, and recipes, hit up the article below.

Smart cookies: Refrigerating dough saves time and enhances the flavor, too | The Telegraph

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