How Silicone Baking Mats Ruin Your Cookies

How Silicone Baking Mats Ruin Your Cookies

HomeCooking Tips, RecipesHow Silicone Baking Mats Ruin Your Cookies

When cookie recipes call for you to bake them on a parchment-lined baking pan switching to silicone sealant may produce unexpected results.

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Cookie Science: Silicone Mats vs. Baking Paper

When I write a recipe for cookies I always make sure to specifically call for a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Details like this may be easy to ignore but they can make a huge difference in how a cookie turns out. When a reader writes to me to troubleshoot cookies that spread too much browned too much and turned out greasier than the ones in the recipe photo my first question is almost always “Were these baked on silicone?”

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Most of the time the answer is yes.