Baking is a superb hobby to take up, nothing can compare to the therapeutic smell of homemade treats floating around your house. However like most things in life, baking requires practice. A newbie baker will come across many problems on their journey, and one of the most common ones is crumbly snacks. They look fine, but when you take them out of the stove, they fall apart with you messing up your clothing and your carpet! In the following paragraphs we'll look at the reasons why snacks come out crumbly, and how you can stop this from happening.
If crumbly snacks are a problem that you simply face, then the first thing you should do is check that your oven is working properly. As the oven gets older it might be less accurate and for that reason the cooking temperature can be off by enough to ruin the outcome of anything you bake in it.
To be able to check this you can purchase a cheap oven thermometer online from Amazon. This will give you an accurate reading through of your oven temperature. If you find the temperature is off, then you may wish to take your cookies out 2-3 minutes earlier then stated in the actual recipe in order to make upward for the additional heat.
If you have ruled out your own oven as being the problem, and you have double checked that you have used the right amount of each ingredient, then you need to check that you are creaming the eggs and also the sugar properly as this is the most likely cause of your crumbly cookies. Formula books generally let you know to do this for around 3 mins, however for the best results you should be creaming the butter and sugar for at least Eight mins (they don't tell you just how bit!)
These are the most common causes of crumbly cookies, so implement the advice and you will be making cookies only the way you want them.
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