What will happen to my chocolate chip cookies if I add more or less flour than the recipe calls for?
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Best Answer
A general answer, because a concise answer would need an entire recipe.
(all ratios that follow are by weight not volume measures)
Flour gives the cookie structure. The commonly followed ratio is:
That 3:2:1 ratio results in the most common cookie texture.
Adding more flour give you a hard cookie like: ginger snaps, short bread, etc.
Reducing the flour, like a 1:1:1 flour-fat-sugar will give a drop cookie and often chewy.
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