Cookie Pancake Thing

[Waterboy_Matt]

I just tried to make a batch of chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies. I think I followed my recipe, but when I got them out of the oven, I had one big chocolate chip and oatmeal pancake. No, not one huge cookie that had merged because I had too many cookies on one pan. I've done that before, and this is different. As I'm eating it right now, it is the fluffy consistency and texture of a pancake, even now that it's cool. It started out twelve separate globs, but they just kinda spread out flat and cooked into a big, rectangular pancake. I'm not really complaining, because it tastes good, but what the heck did I do wrong?

[cakerookie]

Matt it might help if you post your recipe so everyone can see what ingredients and other things you used. Your situation could have been caused by many factors but the recipe helps everyone narrow down your problem.

Rgds Rook

[Waterboy_Matt]

Well, that might be my problem right there. I used a store mix that had me add a stick of butter (I made sure to use really real butter, not margarine), a half cup of milk, and an egg. I accidentally added a whole cup of milk, so I read the ingredients on the back and figured I could double it by adding a second egg, another stick of butter, half a cup of flour and an indeterminate pile of brown sugar. I figured the flour would be the most important thing in thickening up the mix. It did thicken up pretty well, but I must have missed something else in my doubling attempt. Any idea what that might have been?

[AprilB]

Yes, I would have guessed too much butter/shortening, too much brown sugar with not enough flour.

You have to understand that a boxed mix is a combination of ingredients and you just add the fluids. They virtually never say: flour, salt, baking soda or powder...that kind of simplicity. It's all about shelflifes and flour conditioners and weird chemicals that you can't pronounce.

Unless you know exactly what that ratio is you have no clue what you need to add to double it. I'd also guess that the volume of the boxed mix was more than a half cup of flour.

Personally I would suggest getting a good toll house recipe off of a choc chip package and stick with that. Not really difficult and the results won't turn into oatmeal chip pancakes. (although they sound pretty good! ) You can substitute a little oatmeal, maybe an 8th of a cup, for some of the flour if that's what you want to do.

April

Originally Posted by Waterboy_Matt

Well, that might be my problem right there. I used a store mix that had me add a stick of butter (I made sure to use really real butter, not margarine), a half cup of milk, and an egg. I accidentally added a whole cup of milk, so I read the ingredients on the back and figured I could double it by adding a second egg, another stick of butter, half a cup of flour and an indeterminate pile of brown sugar. I figured the flour would be the most important thing in thickening up the mix. It did thicken up pretty well, but I must have missed something else in my doubling attempt. Any idea what that might have been?

[cakerookie]

If you want to doctor box mixes checkout "The Cake Mix Doctor" and several other books with this title this lady does all kinds of neat stuff with box mixes but for the life of me I cannot recall her name.

Rgds Rook.

Thanks AprilB.......

[Waterboy_Matt]

Cool. I think I'm gonna chalk this one up to a learning experience and "Macgyvering it" and just eat the rest of my cookie pancake. Thanks for the help everyone.

If anyone wants to try it as a pancake recipe, feel free. I believe the mix was a Betty Crocker mix for chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies, and it was in a bag like a Bisquik bag. I've already thrown the bag away, but as I recall, it actually called for water, but I figured milk would make the cookies richer, and y'all know the rest.

[Mezzaluna]

My experience with experimentation is to change one ingredient at a time. Then you're certain what it was that caused the outcome to be as it was. That's good science, too.

[m brown]

COOKIE PANCAKES FOR BREAKFAST, BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!