Toll House chocolate chip cookies made at high altitudes

Mexico
July 10, 2008 9:00pm CST
Can anyone tell me how to modify the old fashioned recipe to make soft or chewy cookies at 5200 feet? I'm tired of always getting crisp cookies.
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Flowerchild21
@Flowerchild21 (161)
• Canada
11 Jul 08
Hi, I just looked it up and it says --increase your flour to 2 and 1/2 cups--add 2 tsp of water with flour-- and reduce both white and brown sugar to 2/3 cup each. Bake 8-10 minutes.
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bamart
@bamart (3)
• Mexico
11 Jul 08
Thank you for looking that up. I will adjust my recipe and try again.
pergammano
@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
21 Jul 08
If you change the baking powder required for the recipe to baking soda, you will get soft cookies. Baking powder makes crisp cookies, baking soda, soft cookies, Cheers!
Cocoa33
@Cocoa33 (921)
• United States
11 Jul 08
i was getting the same results as you when to making cookies. i decided to change the temperature from baking at 350 degrees to 325 degrees. when i did that i found that my cookies came out soft. they werent burnt, and easy to take off the cookie sheet. they were easy to consume.
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bamart
@bamart (3)
• Mexico
11 Jul 08
Thank you, I will try that.
Remembering1996
@Remembering1996 (2219)
• United States
22 Jul 08
I was told that the higher you are in altitude you are lower the temp you cook your things like cookies at. I'mat normal altitude and I put mine for 350 so try 325 or 300 for a temp and see if that helps any. Chocolate chip cookies sound so good right about now makes me want to get some and make them mmmmm. Enjoy them and hope they turn out better for you.