Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Introduction/ why am I doing this project? Have you ever forgotten to add an ingredient, or done something wrong when you bake? Well, I have made many mistakes in baking. I put 1 tablespoon of vanilla instead of 1 teaspoon. No worries! That’s what I thought at the time, until I ate the result. It tasted way too sweet! Why would that happen? It was just one small mistake! Why is vanilla so important? This is an even bigger mistake. I forgot to add the flour. I didn’t even notice! Until I watched the oven and saw what was happening. All the butter was melting out all over the oven. I felt so stupid! That’s when I realized that flour was the most important part of the baking masterpiece. The flour makes the cookie. I have been so much more …show more content…

All these cookies are actually the exact same type of cookie. Chocolate chip! All of these cookies are edible, of course. But there is such a big difference between all of them, because we use different ingredients. When I saw this picture, I started getting curious about ingredients and how they work. I started my research on ingredients and found the top most used ingredients in baking, and that is what I’m writing about for my passion project. Chocolate chip cookies with different ingredients that create a different …show more content…

Do they both fizz? (Do this experiment OUTSIDE!) Experiment 4: Find a lot of random liquids in your house. Set them all out on a table. Add little bits of baking powder into each liquid, and see what happens. Write down which liquids made a fizzing sound when the baking powder was added, and write down which liquids didn't make a fizzing sound. Now, look at all the liquids that made the baking powder fizz. Is there anything similar about these liquids? Think about that. Do the same thing for the liquids that didn’t make a fizzing sound. I did experiment 1 and experiment 2. For experiment 1, as I predicted, baking powder mixed with hot water did make a fizzing sound. The baking powder just disappeared into the hot water. When the baking powder was mixed with the cold water, the baking powder was just resting on the top of the water. For experiment 2, almost the same exact thing happened. Except the baking soda took a little longer to fizz than the baking powder. I looked up the difference between baking soda and baking powder and I found out that baking powder is a mixture of baking soda and a dry acid (such as cream of tartar, etc.) So that is why the baking soda fizzed a little slower than the baking powder, because baking powder is made of baking soda and a dry acid, which makes the fizzing a lot faster. Now, why does it

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