Cookie Science: Sugar

Looking at how sugar affects cookies.

Hello hello and welcome to cookie science! I absolutely love diving into the science behind baking and I hope that you’ll find this deep dive a little helpful if you’re interested in the science behind baking as well! :)

Today we’re going to be looking at sugar and how it affects cookies, from the different types of sugar to the different amounts of sugar. And before we get started I want to give a big disclaimer that obviously we are ONLY looking at sugar today. Every ingredient (flour, fat, leavening, egg, type of chocolate / mix-ins) plays a huge role in how your final cookie ends up. I took my small batch chocolate chip cookies and did different sugar tests on them to show how just changing around the sugar can affect your cookies. But you could of course change around the other ingredients after changing the sugar around to make your perfect cookie - that’s the beauty of understanding the ingredients and the science behind them! So let’s get into it!