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On Dec 23, 8:16 pm, "Janet B." > wrote:
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> I tried this online Betty Crocker recipe that called for vegetable oil
> and I was stooopid enough to do it:
>
> Chocolate Crinkles:
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> 1/2 cup vegetable oil
> 4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate, melted and cooled
> 2 cups granulated sugar
> 2 teaspoons vanilla
> 4 eggs
> 2 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
> 2 teaspoons baking powder
> 1/2 teaspoon salt
> 1/2 cup powdered sugar
>
> Well, it turned into a complete disaster. Once in the oven they
> turned into a super thin pancake. total waste of time. Who ever
> heard of using vegetable oil in a cookie recipe? It should be butter
> or shortening right?
>
> JaKe
> Seattle
>
> Wrong. You did something else wrong.
> Janet

Janet,

I challenge you to try it, I followed the recipe to a tee!

JaKe

You've only listed the ingredients, not the specific directions to prepare
them and they are pretty important. I have similar recipes both with and
without chocolate that use vegetable oil and turn out just fine. In
addition to giving us the specific ingredients of your recipe, what was the
texture of the dough when you finished mixing? Was it warm, cool, soft,
runny, drippy, hard, cold, dry? What was the temperature of your kitchen?
How did you form the cookies? What size? Did you place them on warm cookie
sheets? We need all the details. Oh, and we also need to know exactly how
you measured ingredients and what size eggs you used.
Janet