The Science of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
Audience: Youth in grades 3-12
When: February-March, 2025
What’s your ultimate favorite chocolate chip cookie? Do you prefer your cookie to be soft or are you a crispy cookie person? Do you prefer thick or thin cookies? Everyone likes what they like. In this program, you get to find or create your own perfect recipe that turns out every single time you make it.
Some of the things we will cover in this curriculum are as follows:
- Softened butter vs melted butter
- Chilled dough vs baking right away
- Changing the baking temp
- Best practices for measuring flour
- Measuring vs weighing ingredients
There are so many variables or science to making the perfect chocolate chip cookie. By the time you’re done going through all these lessons, you should have your perfect recipe!
Check out this and other fun learning opportunities coming in Winter 2025! You do NOT have to be in 4-H to attend.
