[Wooleybooger]

Recipe as written and given to my wife by a work associate. What's wrong with it?

 

[Two knots]

I don’t see anything wrong with it, except I don’t like margarine in cooking and in baking.

 

[Wooleybooger]

I'd use butter instead of margarine but that isn't what is wrong.

 

[Two knots]

Well, what’s wrong with it?

 

[Wooleybooger]

Clue

After baking they are flat, wafer thin.

 

[Two knots]

It has one teaspoon of baking soda and that’s all you need….maybe you forgot to add it?

 

[Wooleybooger]

Nope.

 

[Two knots]

You got me.. I can’t find anything wrong.

 

[Roll_Bones]

I think its missing baking powder. You need both baking powder and baking soda. Its all about the chemical reaction?

 

[Two knots]

No, I don’t think so..
here’s a recipe that ai just pulled off the net

Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Cookies.

• 1 cup butter, softened
  
  
  
• 1 cup white sugar
  
  
  
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
  
  
  
• 2 eggs
  
  
  
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  
  
  
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
  
  
  
• 2 teaspoons hot water
  
  
  
• ½ teaspoon salt
  
  
  
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
  
  
  
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
  
  
  
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

 

[Wooleybooger]

Keep looking. I made it 4 times before I figured it out.

 

[Two knots]

Four times??? You like to suffer don’t you?

 

[Wooleybooger]

They tasted good but you could almost see through them. Wife said they didn't come out that way when the lady made them and the lady wrote it down.

 

[Two knots]

I prefer thin chocolate chip cookies
… You made me want to bake them.

 

[Wooleybooger]

OK, bake my recipe then immediately bake your recipe and tell me the problem with mine.

 

[Two knots]

You want me to bake your recipe that is a fail??? No thanks…
I‘m not really a chocolate chip fan, but, the head guy loves them…

 

[Wooleybooger]

I'm not telling you what's wrong with it yet, l'd like others to look at this thread first. You are looking at it and not seeing it. When I first was making them I had almost no baking experience so didn't figure it out.
BTW it's not a fail just not what was expected.

 

[PickyPrincess]

Too much whipping?

 

[PickyPrincess]

Also, is the temp too high?

I have a recipe similar to this that bakes at 375, but it's supposed to produce a thin cookie.

 

[Wooleybooger]

Nope and Nope.