Recipe Guidelines

Helpful Hints in Writing a recipe:

Ingredient List
List ingredients in the order they are used; do not list brand names of ingredients.

Mixing Instructions
Large bowl, small saucepan; etc. Are ingredients mixed with a whisk or food processor, by hand, etc.

Baking Instructions
If cookies are baked, how long, at what temperature, is oven preheated, also: how to test for doneness

Cooling Instructions
Cooling time, are cookies removed from pan then placed on wire racks? Time on racks, etc.

Yield
How many cookies at what size? Example: bar cookies could be cut in 1-inch squares, yielding 24.

Storage Information
Do they need to be refrigerated? Can it be frozen? For how long?