Chill this Blend Out

Chilling cookie dough solidifies the fat in the dough and gives the flours and sugars in the dough time to uniformly absorb liquids. The solidified fat makes it easier to work with the dough, helps it keep its shape, and lessens the spread of the cookie as it bakes. For some Cookie Jar Blend doughs, refrigeration before forming and baking the cookies is essential. Scientists of traditional baking have proven that chilling is key so the sugars in the dough can absorb the moisture of the eggs for the ideal texture; in gluten-free baking, it goes double. Texture is all-important, and it’s the refrigeration and rest that make the crucial difference between a soft and supple cookie and a hard and dry one.