Article: Baking sheets burn her cookies

Q. My family loves cookies and I like to make them, but they always burn on the bottom before they are baked. I use the oven temperature suggested by the recipe, but they burn anyway. I don't think it's my oven because it only happens when I use the thin baking sheets. Can you help?

A. I think you may have answered your own question. Perhaps the problem lies in the baking sheets you are using.

"Choose the heaviest available of the largest size possible - it should fit in your oven with 2 inches of airspace all round," recommends Chuck Williams in The Williams-Sonoma Cookbook and Guide to Kitchenware (Random House, $19.95).

The author goes on to explain, "The pan should have a lip on ...

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