MJ wrote:

> I made some chocolate chip cookies today...they taste great but the
> texture is like cake..i have also made oatmeal cookies recently and they
> came out the same way..Any ideas why? The recipes i am using are recipes
> that i have used before and have had no problems..I dont understand what
> is happening..HELP!!

A couple months ago, one of my coworkers passed out cookies she'd made. They
also had a very cake-like texture, but I had no difficulty in figuring out
the problem: She'd cooked them in a microwave oven!

I'm sure that isn't *your* issue, though. It's probably the fact that flour
measurement is unreliable when you're measuring by volume rather than
weight. Are you using the same type and brand of flour? (Using self-rising
rather than all-purpose flour could easily cause the results you describe.
Also, using flour from "soft" wheat will give different results than using
flour from "hard" wheat.) Or maybe it's just that the butter wasn't at the
right stage of softness when you added it.

(Hey, maybe you can get together with the woman whose cookies are spreading
out too much!)

Bob