how to bake cookies

I wish I knew how to make a cookie. I am not good at baking or cooking. I buy the cookie dough allready mixed you just cut it and put it on a cookie sheet. My Grandmother made some really good cookies. But unfortunetly she is not hear with us any more. God rest her soul.

There are literally hundreds of different kinds of cookies to make. One of the easiest cookies to make is the peanut butter cookie. The only way to really mess them up is to over cook them. Here is the basic recipe for peanut butter cookies: http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/cookierecipes/r/pnutbutrcookies.htm These were the first kind of cookies I ever made by myself. I was only 11 so you can see how simple these are. After that move on to another simple cookie such as a chocolate chip cookie. The packages of chocolate chips usually have the recipe right on the package. Just follow it exactly and you will have lovely home made cookies. One tip is to decrease the cooking time after the first pan of cookies bakes. Just by about a minute. The oven tends to get hotter as you bake more batches.

I always have trouble baking cookies. either the bottoms are burnt or sometimes they are too mushy. I cannot win.

I love baking cookies especailly during holiday time. I make chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, sugar cookies and a cookie called Snow Balls. My husband is diabetic so I try to make them as sugar free as possible. I wish the weather would be be a little bit cooker so I can start baking again. Right now it is 90 degrees outside and it is too hot to bake. I can send you some recipes.