NEVER Bake Cookies From a Tube Again - Try This Old School Lunch Lady Trick

📕 Get the full cookbook - The Lunch Lady's $3,600-a-Year Grocery Cut (175 recipes & tricks, scaled for 1, 2 or a family): http://dorislunchlady.com/ Thirty-two cents a cookie, and it comes out the size of a half dollar. But you are not here about the money. You are here because your cookies go hard by morning, or they come out crisp at the edge and dry in the middle, or they are small.  All three of those are the same mistake, and it happens in the last four minutes.  A school kitchen took a pan of cookies out of the oven when they still looked unfinished. Pale on top. Middles a little wet and a little sunken. They looked like a mistake, and that is exactly when they left the oven, because a sheet pan at three hundred and fifty degrees keeps cooking for four more minutes on the counter.  Tonight: the fat, the scoop, the cold pan, the one cookie you bake by itself, and the minute nobody writes down. I am Mrs. Doris. Thirty-five years behind a school lunch line in Scioto County, Ohio. Four hundred children a day on a dollar and five cents a tray. Three things to write on a card. HALF BUTTER, HALF SHORTENING - the butter is the taste and the shortening is the post that holds it tall. A QUARTER CUP OF DOUGH, and never flatten it, because a flattened cookie has no middle left to stay soft. OUT OF THE OVEN WHILE THE MIDDLES STILL LOOK WET, then five minutes on the pan, untouched. #schoolcafeteria #lunchlady