Making Cookies? Beware of Substitutions!

It’s my favorite time of year:  time to bake the cookies!

If you’ll be baking this week or next, following are a few rules for substitutions:

1. butter and regular stick margarine are sometimes interchangeable; butter and tub-style, light, or diet margarine are never interchangeable.

2. semisweet morsels and milk chocolate are usually not interchangeable unless a recipe so indicates.

3. plain (nonalkalized) unsweetened American-style cocoa powder and unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder are usually not interchangeable.

4. baking soda and baking powder are not interchangeable.

5. old-fashioned rolled oats and quick cooking oats may be interchangeable; old fashioned rolled oats and instant oats are not interchangeable.

6. granulated sugar and brown sugar are rarely interchangeable

7. light and dark molasses are usually interchangeable; blackstrap molasses is not interchangeable with either light or dark.

Tips
Read the recipe all the way through and measure out all the ingredients before mixing.

Allow all your ingredients that have been refrigerated to come to room temperature.

Good luck and happy baking!

Richele Brisbon

Shelby’s Sweet Things

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