Why Your Cookies Are Sad (And What Flour’s Got to Do With It)
Alright, let’s talk about something that drives me up a wall: baking a beautiful batch of muffins or cookies, only to pull them out of the oven and think, Well, that’s… disappointing. You know what I mean? They look fine, but they taste heavy, like you mixed in a handful of cement. I used to blame the recipe. Or the weather. Or maybe the oven was having a mood. But turns out, the culprit was sitting in plain sight—my measuring cup. Yep. The way I measured my flour was ruining everything. Let me tell you what I learned, and how …