Do’s and Dough-n’ts

10 Baking Tips for Chocolate Chips

This statement may be a bit insulting, but I’ll say it anyhow:  Pretty cookies are, well, pretty!  Yes, “Captain Obvious” is indeed my middle name — it’s a family name.  But seriously, people are more likely to want to eat a cookie that looks nice over one that looks sloppy.  It’s just like dressing up for an interview.  You could be the most qualified candidate possible, but, if you show up to the interview in denim cut-offs and a blood-stained T-shirt, you’ll never get hired (unless you’re interviewing to be a Mafia hitman).  So, the moral of this post is as follows:  Don’t dress your perfect cookie dough in denim cut-offs and blood-stained T-shirts (Health Dept. complaints aside) – dress to impress! Bake to take the cake!!

1. Raw dough

2. Halfway through baking

3. Fresh out of the oven

4. 3 minutes later on sheet