Cookie Baking Quiz

Creaming is when one mixes these two ingredients together.

• egg and flour

• egg and butter

• sugar and butter

• sugar and flour

When making sugar cookies, it is a good idea to microwave the butter to soften it.

• True

• False

When using a rolling pin, follow this strategy:

• Roll in a circular motion.

• Start in the middle of the dough. Roll out to the edges.

• Move the rolling pin from left to right.

• Start in the middle of the dough. Roll out but do not roll all the way to the edges.

In cookie decorating, there is a term for when someone pipes an outline and then fills it in with icing. What is this term?

• flooding

• frosting

• filling

• fielding

To squeeze a pastry bag in order to force frosting or other paste-like mixtures through the tip of the bag for the purpose of decorating or creating special shapes is known as...

• caramelizing

• gelling

• piping

• leveling

What is the difference between royal icing and buttercream frosting?

• Unlike buttercream frosting, royal icing must be refrigerated over night before it can be used.

• The difference between buttercream frosting and royal icing is texture-buttercream hardens to a candy-like texture but royal icing is creamy and soft.

• Buttercream frosting is only one color but royal icing can be many colors.

• The difference between buttercream frosting and royal icing is texture-buttercream is creamy and soft; royal icing hardens to a candy-like texture

If cookie dough is sticking to the rolling pin, what is one way you can remedy the situation?

• Rub oil on the rolling pin.

• Refrigerate it for awhile.

• Add melted butter to the cookie dough.

• Throw away the sticky dough. It can't be fixed.

It's important not to over mix cookie dough. Why?

• If you mix the dough too much, your cookies will end up with a sticky texture.

• Mixing adds air and air may make them rise too much and then fall and spread too much.

• If you mix the dough too much, the cookies will end up hard as rocks.

For the best outcome, cookies should be shaped into the same size on the pan. Why?

• This will allow more cookies to fit on the cookie sheet.

• This will prevent some of the cookies from being overcooked and some of them being undercooked.

• This will make it more fair when you serve them. No complainers. "My cookie is smaller than your cookie." Boo hoo.

Which rack in the oven is best for getting the most even bake of your cookies?

• Top rack

• Middle rack

• Bottom rack

• Doesn't matter