Chocolate Chip Cookies need help!!!

[Kelleybean]

Hi Mrs. Butterworth,

I am so sorry about that. For some strange reason when I copied the recipe on to the notepad and pasted it the fractions got changed into symbols. The “AP” is All Purpose, it’s supposed to be ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar and 1 ½ old fashioned rolled oats. Sorry. I never noticed that things were that way. Thanks for calling my attention to that.

[Vampireness]

Ok so I wanna buy an oven and well Delonghi oven temperature only goes up to 240C and some recipes call for 250C the highest, so I'm like wondering what to do?

The saleswoman said if the recipes calls for 250C, I cant do them...is that true?

Delonghi doesnt produce 250C ovens so I was given an alternative to the Rowenta brand that has 18L capacity and 250C as the highest temp.

[mudbug]

Hello Vampireness,

Originally Posted by Vampireness

I prefer help with the current recipe because I would like to know if its the ovens fault or mine. I haven't exactly done anything on home oven that came out right...what puzzles me that I've done just about everything right and my results are horrible.

Cake takes longer to bake and more things to be done so I don't wanna have to waste too much money nor wait too long to see how it's turn out especially when I don't know where the fault is.

I appreciate your persistence in trying to get a recipe to work. But it sounds like you have tried enough times to prove to yourself it's not going to work. It simply may be a bad recipe and your efforts are futile.

It certainly couldn't hurt to try a different recipe. I recommend you use a recipe where there is plenty of user feedback that you can read. This way you know that many people have successfully made the recipe so that if you follow the directions properly, you'll know if it's your appliance. Here is one, adjust temp for your convection oven as mentioned above: Mississippi Mud Cake II

Here is another:

Flourless Chocolate Cake
A VERY rich, moist cake, almost like a mousse

Ingredients:
1/2 cup (95g) light brown sugar
6 eggs
400g dark chocolate (the better the chocolate, the better the cake)
1 tablespoon Grand Marnier (or substitute with brandy, Tia Maria, Cointreau, etc)
300mL double thick cream (plus extra to serve, with some strawberries and a dusting of icing sugar if you're serving to someone to whom presentation is more important than chocolate overload)

To cook:
Preheat the oven to 180C (350F)
Lower heat to 160 C degrees for convection oven

Grease a round 23cm cake tin and line the base with baking paper.

Break up the chocolate into small even-sized pieces (e.g. into the little squares) and put them in a heat-proof bowl. Boil a saucepan of water, and then take off the heat, and sit the bowl over the pan, making sure the bottom of the bowl doesn't touch the water. Stir occasionally until the chocolate has melted. While the chocolate is melting, beat the brown sugar and the eggs in a bowl until creamy.

Once your eggs and sugar are beaten, and your chocolate has melted, add the egg mixture, Grand Marnier, cinnamon and chocolate to a bowl and mix together.

Stir the double thick cream very gently by hand a few times, and then fold it into the mixture.

Pour the mixture into the greased & lined tin and bake for about an hour, until a skewer poked into the cake comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool in the tin, and turn out onto a cake rack when cold.

Originally Posted by Vampireness

...some recipes call for 250C the highest, so I'm like wondering what to do?

What recipes specifically?

[Vampireness]

Mudbug - I'm looking for help on oven temperature. Not recipe adjustment, I've mentioned that before. I kinda think I know what I did wrong, asked someone else whose really good with pastry. Anywayz, I can't use this oven since it's also a mircowave and has to be shared and the mircowave is needed most of the time, so it's inconvinent.

Also I don't think you understand, nothing has came out right so doesn't matter the recipe. It's done all right outside but once it goes inside it just doesn't work out. But this a recipe that is quick, takes little time to prepare and I'm familiar with it and also because it doesn't take long at all to make.

In my cookbooks some state 250C and I've seen at cookbooks in store that state 250C so I just don't wanna be limited and not have a clue on what to do when I decide I wanna try a certain recipe.

[mudbug]

Vampireness,

I understand you're looking for help with oven temperature. And you received the proper response in adjustment. If you've tried so many recipes that didn't work, then by all means, look for a new oven that will fit your needs and go up to 250C.

At the same time, you might want to make sure your oven is calibrated properly.

[Vampireness]

I know, I just want input from people about the temperature and if it will mean I can't make 250C recipes. Thats what I meant when I asked for help on oven temperature.