Panning, Baking, and Cooling: Preparing the Pans

Appears in
Professional Cooking: 10th Edition

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2025

  • About
  1. Use clean, unwarped pans.
  2. Lining the sheets with parchment or silicone paper is fast, and it eliminates the necessity of greasing the pans.
  3. A heavily greased pan increases the spread of the cookie. A greased and floured pan decreases spread.
  4. Some high-fat cookies can be baked on ungreased pans.