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How to keep homemade cookies soft
Add some extra butter to the recipe.
Consider your sugar to butter amount carefully. If you have more sugar than butter, you will usually have a harder, flatter cookie, but if you have a little extra butter, you will have a softer, more chewy cookie.

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(1). If you are going for a ranch-style cookie, it's a good idea to add some extra butter to provide sweetness while adding flavor. Butter that starts to dry out does not work.;
(2). Make a fist that is 2 or 3 inches (5.1 to 7.6 cm) bigger than the size of the dough so that you can add in some more butter as you do this recipe. Cream extra (or try a mixer! ) sugar to make it into the dough.;
(3). If you have less butter, you will only have a softer cookie. Put some more butter on your cookie to make it softer, because mixing things up will make it easier to mix ingredients together.;
(4). Even though it's a little more calories to add to your system, they will stay much softer. If you are worried about calories and whatnot, get unsalted butter or put in a little more oil instead.;
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