Cookies had no flavor! Please help!
I baked some cookies that came out with no flavor at all. It was the tollhouse cookie recipe. I used mango flavoring instead of vanilla and light brown sugar for all of the sugar and did not put any chocolate chips in. The mango flavoring is not expired. I added another teaspoon after the first cooked batch came out flavorless. It didn't help. I didn't forget to put salt in. I don't understand where the flavor went. I have never had this happen in 50 years of baking. Please assist.
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If you're not making a full recipe, make sure you're measuring the proper amounts.
Make sure you're using quality ingredients, and even if you are, you might want to switch up. Make sure you're using real stuff too - you can't substitute fake butter for real butter.
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Then you can add/build different flavor profiles.
Looked again at the Nestle Toll House (R) cookie recipe and see that by removing the classic chocolate and vanilla ingredients, you have basically made something close to a shortbread cookie.
The mango extract might stood out or have worked better if it were playing off another tropical flavor.
Perhaps the plain cookie is just too bland for you or not to your taste.
Either as a replacement for the extract flavoring, or in a glaze/frosting for the cookies.