Today, we’re going over our favorite tips to prevent cookies from spreading. Cookies that spread too thin during baking can become overly baked, burnt, and just plain hard and difficult to eat.
Instead of replacing flour in a recipe haphazardly, consider making a trip to the market for the flour specified. Also, I always recommend using a kitchen scale to measure your flour.
When mixing your cookie dough, it’s important to use butter at room temperature. Butter that is too warm or melted will similarly prevent your cookies from holding shape at all.
Overmixing your butter and sugar creates a huge risk of cookie spreading. This can result in essentially melted butter that is liquidy instead of creamy.