- Hi, guys.
It's Rie.
I'm a Tasty producer.
I love cooking.
I love baking.
And I love eating.
Last time, you guys saw me making a cake using 30 hacks.
This time, my friend Annie collected 20 more hacks.
Today we are making chocolate chip cookies.
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This is our controlled cookie.
This is very classic, basic chocolate chip cookie.
It's a little bit cakey for my taste.
My favorite one is a little bit crunchy outside
and softer inside.
Let's get started.
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Hack number one,
use bread flour instead of using all-purpose flour.
So bread flour contains more protein
than all-purpose flour.
That creates more gluten.
That means your cookie is become more chewier,
which I like.
You are using spoon
instead of scooping flour out and ladle flour.
I don't get the point of just scooping with spoon,
maybe if you have narrower flour jar?
Scrape.
If you have knife, maybe it's easier.
I would use this hack for sure, but not the spoon part.
Add in some coffee to have some java effect.
Java effect.
One teaspoon of instant coffee.
To have like nice bitterness.
I don't wanna give too much coffee for little child.
I'm being mom so (laughs)
We will check back later.
Whenever I eat sweet baby moves around,
so I have a feeling my baby's
gonna have a sweet tooth, too.
More butter hack.
We want to bring back cold butter to room temperature.
This is kind of a struggle I sometimes have,
like I decided to bake something
you need a room temperature butter.
This is a quick way of doing it.
You are going to put butter in a bag,
and just
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Tap.
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People would hate me if I'm the neighbor doing this, right?
It's still cold but maybe we gonna leave it like
I feel like you will need at least 30 minutes.
I have another butter hack,
so we gonna just set aside and just put butter inside.
I was afraid water is get into the wrapper,
but it seems like it sealed well.
And make sure water is not too hot,
because if the water is a little too hot,
it will just melt.
You want to turn it every so often,
Already feel like it's becoming softer.
Has it been 10 minutes?
Let's see.
Oh, yeah!
Nice and soft.
This one, let's see.
This one also soft.
The water gets in a little bit, though.
But inside, it's still cold and a little hard.
I like this hack better.
According to this hack we can combine white sugar
with molasses, and just add little by little
until your desire color.
I have brown sugar at home I don't have molasses at home.
Raise your hand if you have molasses around in your pantry.
Smells molassesy.
Molassesy? (giggle)
It's kinda like a slime tutorial.
It's almost look like light brown sugar right now.
I like a little darker so I'm gonna add more molasses.
Texture and color is exactly look like brown sugar.
I have regular brown sugar.
Let's see the taste.
Taste like brown sugar.
And this is the DIY one, tastes exactly like brown sugar.
So this hack definitely works.
Bring back eggs to room temperature with warm water.
When you're baking we want
to make everything is room temperature.
It's like warm you can touch it.
It's like good shower (giggle)
So three minutes is up, and we are going to check.
I think it's not cold anymore.
If the egg is really cold it's more firm,
but this is kinda loose now.
This is room temperature.
Chocolate hack.
Do you guys remember "Chocolate Rain".
Turns out it happen 13 years ago (laughing)
I don't use chocolate chip
when I make chocolate chip cookie.
I also use chocolate bar.
You can control the size, it's looks more rustic
than round chocolate chip.
So you can use knife, but this is room temperature
so it doesn't have any problem.
Okay, so I chop all the chocolate.
Set this aside.
So we have all the ingredients ready.
This is the room-temperature butter we made it earlier.
I liked this hack earlier, now I'm not sure.
I need one more stick butter,
so I'm combining 3/4 cup of white sugar
and 3/4 cup of brown sugar,
so we are using bread flour and brown sugar.
Both components makes a little bit chewier cookies.
We are going to cream these two together.
So instead of using vanilla extract using maple syrup.
I'm not sure about this hack,
you are kinda adding extra sweetness.
Chocolate chip cookies already sweet.
I feel like if you don't have vanilla extract just skip it.
We'll see.
I'm going to cream about five minutes.
So This is nice consistency.
And I'm adding egg one by one.
I'm going to add flour mixture.
So for the cookie,
shorter the mix time is better.
Especially we are using bread flour as well.
And there is no flour visible, so I'm gonna stop right here.
And I'm going to mix chocolate.
All right, so dough is ready.
Next hack we are going to use cookie dough as a glue.
If you are using convection oven
especially there is hot air coming from the oven.
Sometimes like paper just flew away.
I use this all the time it doesn't need to be cookie
You can use this for macaroon.
So this is a good hack.
Use, ice cream scooper.
I also use this hack all the time for baking cookie
Cause you can portion control.
And also creates nice rustic shape.
Using ice tray for leftover dough,
and you can freeze them.
I'm not sure about this hack.
You can maybe scoop on the tray with ice cream scoop
and freeze it.
Probably for like saving space.
I would just scoop it and put it in a Ziploc bag.
So I'm going to rest this dough for overnight.
I think you guys already saw
Alvin's two days cookie recipe video.
You want to at least, rest this dough overnight,
or as Alvin did, two days.
Kinda makes it better flavor it's almost like curing.
You can freeze the dough so it doesn't spread too much,
but if you are resting this dough overnight
you don't need to freeze it.
So I'm going to just put it in the refrigerator
and I just see you guys tomorrow.
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Okay, we've rested this dough overnight.
Add more chocolate chip before you bake it.
I think this hack is just give more chocolate chip bite.
I think we are doing this because
the chocolate chip is more visible.
I might use it but I'm not gonna use chocolate chip.
I'm gonna use roughly chopped chocolate.
Use flaky salt.
This flaky salt it's good addition
for chocolate chip cookie
because chocolate chip cookie is very sweet,
so it's kinda cuts and balance out the sweetness.
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Use muffin tin for perfect circle.
We're going to spray the muffin tin.
It's kind of like a mold, you know,
so you are going to cook cookies in a muffin tin.
It doesn't spread out it's intact.
I like the those like rustic shape,
so I'm not gonna use this hack.
I think it's jut a preference thing.
Another muffin tin hack.
You are using muffin tin upside down
to make kinda like cookie bowl,
so you can put ice cream in it.
I wonder if it's gonna spread.
If you want to maintain the cookie shape
you want to cook higher temperature
and shorter time.
So I'm going to cook this 375
about eight to 10 minutes.
All right.
So those are ready.
This is the one we bake in a muffin tin.
Kinda like a flat muffin.
Cookie muffin "coo-fin".
I don't know what it's the benefit of using muffin tin.
So this is another muffin tin hack.
It spread, kinda look like a jelly fish.
It's stuck.
(knife scraping)
(gasp)
Oh, okay.
So this is what we got.
The recipe we used didn't work.
Think it's like 60% successful.
Use waffle maker.
Oh!
The reason it's smokey, I put oil earlier.
This is like make cookie waffle.
The cookie waffle is "coo-ffle".
Let's see what's gonna do.
It's coming out.
Oh, no!
Do you wanna.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Wow!
- It's just a waffle.
- Yes!
(laughing)
Wait how you gonna take this out.
It's breaking.
No.
- I'm sad.
- Me too.
I think cookie dough doesn't have enough structure
or enough flour to keep the shape.
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No (giggle)
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So the original Nestle Tollhouse cookie recipe
it's bake at 375 about eight to 10 minutes,
so it's a little bit taller,
and inside it's a little bit more cakier.
And this is the one we baked at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes.
Edges crispy and it's chewy inside.
The most fun part, tasting.
The texture is great, flavor is great.
I have some sort of like after taste,
maybe it's the maple syrup.
I don't like this after all.
It is so much today.
Overall, I like hack cookie better
than the control cookie because the texture I like.
Salt and instant coffee kinda gives nice touch.
So, I think this is the winner.
We have one last hack.
If you burnt cookie on the bottom.
You can just grate it so it's not bitter.
So you can use either cheese grater or micro plane.
Just like gently grate,
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so you don't need to throw this away.
All right, we used all 20 hacks and we are done!
Here's three hacks I like from today's experiment.
Brown sugar hack.
Warming up egg hack.
Resting dough hack.
(laughing) Hats off.
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