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Learn a few professional tips of what to do (and maybe what not to do) when baking this classic: Chocolate chip cookies. Amateur baker Alina, home cook Lorenzo, and Penny, a professional chef, demonstrate how they make chocolate chip cookies in this Epicurious video. It’s chock-full of ideas to pick and choose from, including different ingredients, methods, and baking temperatures and times.

Then we review the science of their bakes, as explained in detail by a food scientist—that’s the fourth level. The good news: They’ll all be pretty delicious. Watch Four Levels of Chocolate Chip Cookies.

I love cookies! In fact, I just had two warm chocolate chip cookies for dessert tonight. I bet that you have a student or twenty that enjoys cookies too. TED-Ed has a fun lesson that you can use to teach some science concepts through cookies. In the TED-Ed lesson about the chemistry of cookies students learn why you shouldn't eat raw dough, the temperature at which salmonella is killed, why cookies spread-out (or don't spread if the dough is not correct), and what our noses tell us about cookies.

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