Pt 2 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Closer Looks

 

"Pt 1 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dolloping" primarily describes using a cooky press to push out chocolate chip cooky dough. As presses don't gracefully dispense dough having add-ins, my method incorporates a DIY food bottle funnel. Let's look more closely.

Closer Looks at Cooky Presses

I looked on the web for a means to push out chocolate chip dough. I spotted some presses that included piping nozzles in addition to dough disks. Amazon displayed a few such devices, the magic find word being "biscuit", which British commonly refer to stateside "cookies" Another site is Ebay. Weirdly, seems many US companies sell cooky presses and icing decorator guns separately.

I actually own Wilton Dessert Decorator Pro Stainless Steel Cake Decorating Tool So far, I tried it once, thinking I could pipe nice angel food cakelets. Big fail, as the oven temperature totally collapsed the edges. Interesting discovery: the screw-on collar fits my Wilton cooky press. Some day I'll try the decorator collar with my press and see about squeeze-triggering chocolate chip cooky dough.

Funnel Formations

The following slides from "Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dolloping" video explain just about everything needed to DIY cooky press funnels.

In the cooky dough dispensing stage (squeeze trigger, pinch dollop, deposit), I decided to skip on trying the soda bottle funnel. I favored the other two because the diameters were bigger, and the distances from dough tube to spout were shorter.

Mini and Regular Chocolate Chips

For thIs recipe, I've used most of the same type dough. I varied on using mini chocolate chips for one batch, and regular chocolate chips for the other. Notice side-by-side contrast for size and quantity between them.

"How Many Chocolate Chips in a Cup? (standard, mini, jumbo, & chunks)" contrasts quantities of chocolate chips per cup portions depending on the size of the chips. Minis are much smaller than regulars—"About 6½ mini semi-sweet chocolate chips equal 1 morsel-sized chocolate chip."

"How to Measure Chocolate Chips Correctly (2022)" further states: "Chocolate chips are measured by weight, volume, or count. The most accurate way to measure chocolate chips is to weigh them on a kitchen scale."

A related link is "How Many Chocolate Chips in a Tablespoon? (Depends on chip size)" provides details about factors that affect counts, including molds, ingredient variations and chocolate type. The table lists "1 Tablespoon (14 grams)". My mini chips bag (Nestle) lists one serving as 1 T (14 g), 70 calories. My regular chip bag (Hill Country Fare) lists one serving as 1 T (15 g), 70 calories.

The article shows a table for chips per tablespoon (14 grams). The minis count is 135, and the regular chips (standard) count is 28. Thus, a mini weighs a smidge more than .1 gram, and a standard weighs .5 gram.

More Chocolate Chip Nibbles

"0.1-3g Chocolate Chips Making Machine Fully Automatic" looks to be a marketing site that describes a chip-making machine's capabilities, with spec overviews. I'm thinking the machine is likely able to make chips as small as minis. FWIW, I never see fractions or tolerances for grams in nutrition tables.

"How are Chocolate Chips Made in a Factory? 4 Steps" summarizes the chip-making process that starts with melting the ingredients together and ending with creating the morsels. Both sites have the same embedded YT video of the machine in action.

"How Hershey's Chocolate Is Made and Packaged HD" shows interesting details for variety of their products., especially WRT mass manufacturing and packaging.

Cooky Bitefuls

I got curious about cooky mass production. Lookit those cookies go!

• "How It's Made: Chocolate Chip Cookies" provides details about "puck" dimensions and baking time near the 4-minute mark.
• "COOKIES PLANT" starts showing dispensing (extruding) pieces onto trays starting about 1:25 (6 rows). Note some nozzles rotate to form some cooky types. About 3:10, the shows wire-cut drop cookies.
• "TerraSana visits cookie factory" provides an an abbreviated look at huge-quantity cooky production.

Potentially Squishy Calories Calculations

The calorie counts were problematic for this recipe primarily because of stats for chocolate chips. Nutrition tables for my bags of mini chocolate chips and regular chocolate chips stated calories per tablespoon. One brand stated a tablespoon as 15 grams, and another brand stated a tablespoon as 14 grams. Formulation can affect stats. Imho, gram weights and small serving sizes for items as teeny as chocolate chips can leave lots of room for inaccuracies.

The stats in the Calories and Sodium section in "Pt 1 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dolloping" is theoretical. I don't really know how much tolerance is in gram weights per tablespoon. Another big factor in stats "slop" is the size of my cookies. They're not factory-made exact; some are undersized, some oversized. All were yummy!

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"Pt 1 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dollopin"

"Pt 2 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Closer Looks"

"Low-effort Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies"

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Pt 1 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dolloping

 

Cooky press users, use your press to pump out chocolate chip dough by using a DIY funnel made from the top of a food bottle. Dough scoopers and other one-at-a-time dollopers, you can reduce the tedium and repetitive travel between dough bowl and pan. Squeeze the press trigger, pinch/deposit dollop, move to another spot on pan, repeat.

 

Rec: Use cake mix cooky dough for ease and doability. View the video for the recipe start to finish and guidance for making and using your own funnels.

At the end of April, I published "Low-effort Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies", my go-to cooky dough recipe using cake mix, oil, eggs, and chocolate chips. The actual base dough is without chips, and suitable for using a cooky press.

For thIs recipe, I've replicated most of the dough. I varied on using mini chocolate chips for one batch, and regular chocolate chips for the other. Notice side-by-side contrast for size and quantity between them.

Funnelling Cooky Dough with Cooky Press

At the end of May, I published "Pt 1 Revisiting Simplest Scratch Oatmeal Cookies, Plain and Chocochip Batch". By the time I got to dollopingthe second pan, I wearied of scooping, and used an icing spatula to shape mostly squares. An idea for less tedious dolloping percolated—a funnelly attachment.

The main process difference from my previous cake mix cooky dough recipe is dispensing, using a cooky press and funnels made from tops of food bottles. Each DIY funnel shape has a larger end that fits between a cooky press dough tube and screw-on collar, with the narrow end aimed toward the pan.

Cooky Press, in Case You Don't Have One But Might Consider One

Typical cooky presses come with stenciled disks (often seasonal themes) for fast, consistent-size dough dispensing. Chocolate chips are no-gos because they're oversized for the stencil openings. BTW, cooky press mechanisms tend not to be strong enough for oatmeal cooky doughs or similarly thick doughs.

Seems many cooky presses resemble each other for looks and functions. I myself have "wilton preferred press cookie press", but don't remember when I got it. Some disks look different than ones I have.

Two articles with images/videos that show my use of cooky press:

• "A Convenient Cake Mix Cooky Batch"
• "Kool-Aided Cake Mix Cookies Combo Batch" 

Some resources for cooky presses:

• "Tips on Buying and Using a Cookie Press"
• "How to Use a Cookie Press"
• "How to Use a Cookie Press"
• "Best Cookie Presses for Thick Dough: Buyer’s Guide for 2022"

If you get really hot to trot on speed and ease, electric cooky presses are available.

Calories and Sodium

This recipe's numbers are very similar to the ones in "Low-effort Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies". The yield for that recipe was 40 (from using a scoop and icing spatula for dolloping).

This recipe using DIY funnels for dispensing yielded 55 cookies, 28 in the first half batch, and 27 in the second half batch. The caloric totals deviated from the previous recipe because, this time, I adopted nutrition table info from the chocolate chip package.

Actually, another wrinkle is having obtained 28 cookies in the mini chips batch and 27 in the regular chips batch. If I'd been smarter about the eventual dolloping, I would have eked out one more dollop for the latter batch.

Dividing the dough for 2 batches:
Calories = 2715/2 = 1357 C for each half batch
Sodium = 3020/2 = 1510 mg for each half batch

Mini chocolate chip cookie yield: 28
Calories: 1357 + 567 = 1924 divided by 28 cookies = 69C/cooky
Sodium: 1510mg/28 cookies = 54mg/cooky

Regular chocolate chip cooky yield: 27
Calories: 1357 + 530 = 1887 divided by 27 cookies= 70C/cooky
Sodiurm 1510mg/27 cookies = 56mg/cooky

For the regular chocolate chip cookies, if I had squeezed out 28 instead of 27, calculations would have been easier. In any case, the numbers would have been 67C and 54mg sodium.

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"Pt 1 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dollopin"

"Pt 2 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Closer Looks"

"Low-effort Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies"

View more cooky recipes.