When I got silpat for Christmas from my Mother/Sister-in-law I was more than a little skeptical. I had heard about silpat, it helped prevent cookies from burning on the bottom, sort of a parchment paper on steroids.
I could not burn the bottoms of my cookies if I tried (usually they don’t cook all the way through).
The silpat had been sitting in the kitchen drawer for a while and I decided to give it a try. I’d already ruined dozens of cookies in the past, what was a few dozen more?
I opted to make Cranberry Orange & Dark Chocolate Chip cookies (I used mild chocolate chips, but who’s keeping track!?) I’ve made them before and so far they’ve turned out fairly good (except for the batch that the baking soda poofed about 2 table spoons into it and they tasted rather nasty).
Although I ended adding an extra 10 minutes to the cooking time (checking every 5 minutes after the initial 12), that was nothing new (it happens nearly every time I bake cookies).
The cookies came out nicely. They came up easily off the silpat and transfered easily to the cooling rack. The silpat wiped off easily and I’m preparing a second batch of cookies to make sure that the first try wasn’t a freak coincidence.
Update
“I used your the silpat your mom gave me.” I told Gavin as I handed him a cookie.
“How did they turn out?”
“I don’t know yet, I havn’t tried, you get the first one.”
He looked skeptical. Then he bit into it.
“Mmm, these are excellent! It worked, they’re chewy all the way through.”
I am quite pleased (so is Gavin).
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