I love making chocolate chip cookies, and have refined my technique so a batch of dough fills my two baking sheets perfectly without them smooshing together. The two tricks are using a little more flour and baking soda than the recipe says, so they're a little fluffier and don't spread out so much, and consistent ball size.
I just fill the pan and use cookie cutters after they're baked.
I eat the scraps.
btw anyone know what the onset signs of diabetes is?
Can also put the tray with cookies on it in the freezer, that can help keep them from spreading as much! Then throw it in the oven from frozen like. Or...firmed up like.
Interesting, but just using a little more flour and baking soda seems simpler.
I do both! I like very thick cookies though.
I suspect having round shape pushing against each other isn't enought to get a hex shape.
In the picture, cookies are tiled such that those in the center are surrounded by 6 other cookies and have a hex shape. Others are surrounded by 2 to 4 cookies and are not hex. So it probably has to do with the tiling.
Cookie Catan!
Bestagon cookies!
They're the hexagreatest!
Insert CGP Gray video on how hexagons are the bestagons
Alright, as long as someone commented it!
Hecks a good cookies.
ONE. That's how many cookies fit on that tray.
If you're feeling generous you could break off some sections of your one cookie for your friends.
What part would you share? The crispy outer edge, or soft chewy center?
The overcooked back half.
Sing the song!
🎶 Hexagons are the bestagons
Columnar basalt cookies
This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.
Replace em with bears and you'll get many hexbears
I need soft circular bears in my life
It's what all of us really are at hexbear: circle bears. We only developed the hexagonal shape from pushing against each other over time - the result of countless struggle sessions. But at heart, even now we're still just sweet, circular bears once you look beneath the hard hexagonal edges wrought by all the outdoor cats and stacked rocks.
Voronoi cookies!
This only happened because they laid them in rows of 5-4-5-4.
Yeah, it happens when you pack the circles as densely as possible. If you place them in a grid, they will expand to a grid.
me after discovering the voronoi node:
I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like
I just woke up with my phone on this. My assumption is that remembering that optimal packing thing just caused me to pass out, presumably to protect myself.
Does it haunt your dreams the same way it haunts mine?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LOL you can see how the back is darker and has this curve. Oven not heating as it should
turn the tray halfway through cooking for god sake
But when I do this all the cookies fall out
how hard are you spinning
I think asking which axis would be the question
Annnnd now I’m baking cookies
Close hexagonal packing. Rigid cylinders will approximate this as well.
That pan can fit 21 cookies
It can clearly fit 2⁵ hexagonal cookies!
Isn't it 2⁵?
Edit: disregard, I'm clearly blind. Or dumb. Or both.
Voronoi cookies!
Hexagons are a internal function of the universe
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