Looking at underdone cookies makes about every baker disappointed. That moment when you put your hands, ready to taste that pretty lilliputian cookie you take spent and then much effort making and the time waited to cool information technology only to realize it's underbaked, is indescribable.

Today I volition be sharing tips with you lot how to save these under broiled cookies and salvage whatever effort you have put in! A word of alarm is that the texture of the cookie might be slightly dissimilar. From my experience while testing the cookie time for the cookie recipes I develop, I noticed that the taste is more than or less similar, if not the same. The texture will be slightly drier withal, due to the increased amount of fourth dimension bachelor for water evaporation out of the cookie dough. That'due south perfectly fine for me however, because I love crunchy cookies.

Another note is that the extra time and temperature when you re-bake your cookies again by placing it back in the oven volition vary from recipe to recipe and I can only requite yous a general guideline. This is especially then when at that place's different extents to which your cookie is possibly nether baked or underdone.

An important disclaimer will be that since I do non have feel in trying out every single recipe, endeavor the method I suggest for your nether baked or underdone cookies simply because you want to try a last resort to salvage all the efforts yous accept placed in.

I am going out on a limb against popular opinions by maxim, Aye, it's okay to place your nether baked or underdone cookies dorsum into the oven for a 2d bake . But here'southward the condition: you would need to adjust the baking time and temperature.

I have done information technology earlier multiple times and I strongly abet information technology's possibility to salve these underdone cookies. My motivation stems from my desire to preclude and minimize nutrient wastage in the kitchen. Wastage in the kitchen tin can severely touch on the environment besides, indirectly. A modest digression here, if you would like to know about simple and easy means I implement to make my kitchen more environmentally friendly, you can read this other baking tip I have written hither: Baking Tip: Easy Ways to exist Environmentally Friendly as a Baker

Here are some general guidelines that I have tried with 160 degrees C, 170 degrees C and 180 degrees C.

In all scenarios, keep a constant lookout for the doneness of your cookies ( not too dark-brown etc, signs of overcooked or burnt cookies should be constantly looked out for ). You lot might likewise want to rotate your trays.

Scenario 1: 160 degrees C
My cookies was underdone / nether baked afterwards a bake for about 7-8 minutes.

To save these cookies, I let them completely cool, and and so bake them again in 160 degrees C for about 5 minutes, and so get out it in the oven after I turn it off. The remaining trapped rut in the oven will continue to cook the cookies.

Scenario ii: 170 degrees C
My cookies were underdone after a broil of 7 minutes.

To save these cookies, I did what I did to salve the 160 degrees C, too letting them completely cool and then baking them in 160 degrees C for about five minutes. Turn the oven off, let the trapped heat melt the cookies.

Scenario 3: 180 degrees C
My cookies were underdone after a bake of vii minutes.

To salvage these cookies, I allow them completely cool first. Then continue baking them at 180 degrees C for 5 minutes. Subsequently which, plough off the oven, and again leave them in and allow the trapped heat keep cooking them.

Practise note that other factors will affect your bake fourth dimension equally well, such as size of the cookie batter used and the power of your oven. Aslope, although the ingredients of your cookie will also affect information technology slightly.

The all-time way to tell and fe downwards all these variables will be to diligently cheque constantly for signs of well done cookies, such every bit browning around the edges or the cookies being nicely golden chocolate-brown. Aye, it volition be tiring and requires extra endeavour. But when yous sense of taste success, pun intended, you lot will non regret it!

If your eggs come from a dubious source or have the possibility of introducing diseases such as salmonella, or if you lot are uncomfortable with the possibility of eating raw eggs please do not even attempt to sample the cookies. In such cases, you would have to only throw away these cookies unfortunately for the greater practiced of your health, for the sake of food hygiene. There's actually no incentive to have the risk of ending upward in the emergency room for a batch of well washed cookies.

Practice try these methods out with the notes I have included and let me know if you are able to achieve success as well! Do include other recommendations for me too if you experience that this article isn't comprehensive or if y'all do not concord with the article.

Hope it helps,
– Bakeomaniac, Javier Tan!