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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

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?

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Interesting, but just using a little more flour and baking soda seems simpler.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I do both! I like very thick cookies though.

[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Cookie Catan!

[-] critical@reddthat.com 113 points 1 week ago
[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

They're the hexagreatest!

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Insert CGP Gray video on how hexagons are the bestagons

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

Alright, as long as someone commented it!

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Hecks a good cookies.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

What part would you share? The crispy outer edge, or soft chewy center?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The overcooked back half.

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[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 week ago

Someone hexed those cookies

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

The toppings are also cursed.

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[-] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago

Sing the song!

🎶 Hexagons are the bestagons

[-] TrackShovel@lemmy.today 25 points 1 week ago
[-] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Replace em with bears and you'll get many hexbears hexbear-shining hexbear-chapochat

[-] felsiq@piefed.zip 11 points 1 week ago

I need soft circular bears in my life

[-] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago

Voronoi cookies!

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

This only happened because they laid them in rows of 5-4-5-4.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 week ago

me after discovering the voronoi node:

[-] Gustephan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like

[-] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[-] Gustephan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Does it haunt your dreams the same way it haunts mine?

[-] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

LOL you can see how the back is darker and has this curve. Oven not heating as it should

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[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

turn the tray halfway through cooking for god sake

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

But when I do this all the cookies fall out

[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago
[-] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 6 points 6 days ago

I think asking which axis would be the question

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[-] Beebabe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Annnnd now I’m baking cookies

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago
[-] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Close hexagonal packing. Rigid cylinders will approximate this as well.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That pan can fit 21 cookies

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It can clearly fit 2⁵ hexagonal cookies!

[-] sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Isn't it 2⁵?

Edit: disregard, I'm clearly blind. Or dumb. Or both.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Voronoi cookies!

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hexagons are a internal function of the universe hex-moon

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