Question cookiie making

[mumu3]

Hi,
I am new to baking and i was wandering when a recipe says beat or cream say butter (soften), cream cheese, sugar, and brown sugar ina bowl would there be any cookie difference if dump all in a bowl and creamed it that way verse the way of creamy butter and sugar first than adding rest of ingr. separately? I know baking is trial and error but would like to know if cookie receipes can be made with everything dumped in a bowl and than cream or beat till light and fluffy?

Mumu

[castironchef]

You'll want to (a) check the recent thread on creaming technique and (b) cream the butter and sugar first -- really well -- before adding the remaining ingredients. Otherwise, the other ingredients will interfere with the creaming process.

Creaming isn't simply mixing the ingredients together. The creaming process is critical to the texture of the cookies, as it is the step that incorporates air into the fat through the cutting with the sugar crystals. No air => no puff and you've made a hockey puck instead of a cookie.