How

Different Ingredients Affect the

Outcome of a Cookie
For this experiment, I experimented with how different ingredients
affected the outcome of a cookie. I baked five different types of
cookies and recorded how each ingredient affected the final cookie.

Cookie 1: Added an extra 1/4 cup of flour.

Cookie 2: Added an extra half egg.
Cookie 3: Used a banana instead of 1/8 cup of white and brown sugar.
Cookie 4: Left the cookies in the oven for an extra five minutes.
Cookie 5: The basic cookie with nothing extra added to it.

Recipe:
- 1/4 cup of flour and salt in a small bowl
- 1/8 cup of white sugar
- 1/8 cup of brown of sugar
- 1/2 an egg
- A pinch of baking soda
- A pinch of salt
- A half stick of butter (4 tbsp)
Steps:
1) Mix together the flour, baking soda,
2) In a medium bowl,cream together
butter, sugar and half egg
3) Slowly combine the dry ingredients
with the wet ingredients
4) Add the chocolate chips
5) Using a spoon, add the dough to a
non-stick pan
6) Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees
Fahrenheit

Burnt

Dense

Fluffy

Cookie 1 Cookie 2 Cookie 3 Cookie 4 Cookie 5

Conclusion
Throughout the lab, I found that changing even the smallest things in the
ingredients can change the outcome of the cookie completely. During this
lab, I baked five different types of cookies and each cookie followed the
basic recipe I listed above, but with another added ingredient or more of a
certain ingredient. As you can see from the graphs, Cookie 1 had an extra
1/4 cup of flour and was the most dense while Cookie 2 was the fluffiest
and contained an extra half egg. Cookie 3 was similar to Cookie 2, but a
little less fluffy; it was more of a combination of both Cookie 2 and Cookie
5. Cookie 4 was left in the oven for an extra five minutes and was the
most burnt. Cookie 5 used the basic recipe and was in-between fluffy and
dense. All of these cookies varied and changed dramatically when you
changed or added an ingredient.

Cookie 1 Chemical makeup of sodium

Cookie 2 chloride (salt)
Cookie 3
Cookie 4
Cookie 5
Chemical makeup of sucrose
0 10 20
(sugar)

How the cookies compare in

size (lengthXwidth)
Cookie 1 Cookie 2 Cookie 3

Cookie 4 Cookie 5

By: Isabel Rich