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🍪 Cookie Science 1.5
Baking Fresh Dough — What Happens?
Fresh cookie dough is baked right after mixing, while the butter is still soft and the dough is warm.
Because of this:
• Butter melts very early in the oven
• Dough spreads quickly
• Structure forms later
As a result, cookies made from fresh dough often:
• Spread more
• Bake thinner
• Have softer edges
• Lose some height
This doesn’t mean fresh dough is wrong —
it simply spreads before the structure has time to fully set.
Fresh dough spreads first, then sets.
In the next post we will talk about what happens when we freeze the dough first then bake it
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