Help with baking cookies please?

Question

When baking cookies, and it says "Drop by tablespoonfuls", do they mean just regular tablespoons (eating utensils) or actual measuring tablespoons?

Answer 1

It doesn't really matter just as long as the cookie dough is not a heaping spoonful because it won't get done in the middle if it is heaping. I've been baking cookies for 33 years every Christmas and the spoon size doesn't matter, just the heaping size.

Answer 2

It's a recipe. In recipes you use the measuring tablespoons, because sometimes not all regular tablespoons are the same size.

Answer 3

That is a good question!  

And it IS somewhat ambiguous.  Take a heaping (regular) tablespoon or a SLIGHTLY rounded measuring tablespoon.  Thing is, you will still need to watch cooking time as your oven will be different than the oven that the recipe was "calibrated" in.

Good luck, and be willing to re-arrange cookie sheets in the oven and watch carefully to get the best results!

Answer 4

I would use real measuring tablespoons but if you don't have that you can use the eating utensils. Either would work. It is just to make sure the cookies are about the same size, the size is approximate, doesn't have to be exact.  

Answer 5

Eating utensils, the bigger the "drop" the bigger the cooke.  The bigger the cookie, the longer the bake time.

The bigger the better.  Size matters.

Answer 6

well tablespoons of course but it dosn't matter that much just experiment if u dont like how it turns out ^^just make sure u dont have the cookies touching each other put them spread out a bit after making the first batch u'll soon get the hang of it just dont make so many cookies the first batch if so u can make more ^^ and they will be perfect ^^