Chewiness

Appears in
Professional Cooking: 10th Edition

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2025

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Moisture is necessary for chewiness, but other factors are also required. In other words, all chewy cookies are soft, but not all soft cookies are chewy. These factors contribute to chewiness:
  1. High sugar and liquid content, but low fat content.
  2. High proportion of eggs.
  3. Strong flour, or gluten developed during mixing.