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:
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.
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.
"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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