Healthy Cookie Recipes: Butter Substitutes & Baking Tips

Baking perfect cookies involves understanding rising agents and fat ratios. Discover healthy holiday recipes, the best butter substitutes for baking, and how to prevent cookies from spreading or burning on the bottom.

Why Do My Chocolate Chip Cookies Go Flat When Baked?

Published Aug,17 2011 | By Andrea Cespedes

Cookies are a microcosm of cooking chemistry and a few fixes can turn them into the puffed, mounds of goodness you crave. Chocolate chip cookies that have a high butter content and too much liquid tend to spread as they bake.