Mixing Methods
Cookie Country
Function Junction
Stirring Stirring
Levitating Leaveners
100

A quick-bread that is prepared by adding all the liquid to a well in the dry ingredients, and mixing until just combined. 

What is a Muffin?

100

You use two spoons to prepare this cookie.

What is a Drop Cookie?

100

A group of ingredients used to give volume to your product. 

What are Leavening Agents? 

100

To press fat and sugar against the side of your bowl until it reaches a smooth, even consistency.

What is Creaming? 

100

This ingredient releases steam when heated.

What are Water/Liquids? 

200

A quick bread with fat distributed in even chunks in the flour mixture.

What is a Biscuit?

200

These cookies are made by rolling dough in your hands and cooking them either as balls or flattening them onto a baking tray.

What is a Molded Cookie?

200

An ingredient added to enhance browning, add tenderness and impacts flavour. 

What is Sugar? 

200

To break-up pieces of fat into flour.

What is to Cut-in? 

200

A leavening ingredient that is made with a dry acid included so that any liquid may be used to activate.

What is Baking Powder? 

300

A preparation technique requiring creaming of fat in a separate bowl from the dry and liquid.

What is Cake?

300

A cookie that is chilled to set so that it can be cut into slices.

What is a Refrigerator Cookie. 

300

Added to tenderize, it also helps with richness and flavour.

What are Fats? 

300

A gentle mixing action used when adding whipped egg whites or whipped cream.

What is Folding? 

300

An ingredient that is used to emulsify [mixes water and oil], which also works well to trap air in your baking.

What are Eggs? 

400

A tender, flaky versatile dough.

What is a Biscuit?

400

A cookie that is cut after baking. 

What is a Bar Cookie?

400

These react with leavening agents to produce a chemical reaction, may add flavour and nutrients, and help to combine ingredients.

What are Liquids? 

400

Mixing two ingredients until they are combined.

What is Blending? 

400

A limited leavening agent that can only be used when the liquid being added is acidic.

What is Baking Soda?

500

Over mixing can be a problem in this batter.

What is Muffin?

500

This cookie dough can be used to cut out various shapes.

What is a Rolled Cookie?

500

This ingredient makes up the structure of all baked items.

What is Flour? 

500

Using circular motions to incorporate ingredients. 

What is Stirring? 

500

This is done to incorporate air into your ingredients [2].

What is Whipping & Creaming? 

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