On Jun 3, 2:19*pm, Roy > wrote:
> With conventional recipes I can get crisp and I can get crumbly cookies
> but I want "chewy".
>
> What do I increase or decrease to get the desired results?
>
> The last ones I made were made with butter and they tasted great but crumbled
> terribly. Before that I used margarine and they were too crisp.
>
> This cookin' business sure ain't easy for us old bachelors.

Are you using all brown sugar in them? Brown sugar makes a chewier
cookie. Also, don't overbake them if you want them to be chewy.
Oatmeal cookies can also get crumbly if you put too much oatmeal in
them.