Baking Cookies??

bhedges1987

Hey,

I have never baked anything in the egg.  How do you guys go about doing it, and does it still taste good? 

I assume plate setter legs down, put a pizza stone on top of that, and then whatever I am making my cookies on?  I doubt I have any sort of pan that would fit in my egg.  Are those half moon baking stones worth it?
Thanks

badinfluence

You are close. Plate setter legs down. Put a few spacers between the plate setter and the baking stone. Preheat everything. Bake the cookies....enjoy.

SoCalTim

I have baked several apple pies on the egg ... they come out awesome everytime.

RRP

I bake a lot of cakes in my medium using a Bundt pan. Due to the shorter dome I remove the grill and place my plate setter with legs up. I then use my 3 green ceramic feet to rest my Bundt pan on. If you don't have the feet then use other spacers as you do not want the pan resting directly on the PS. My cakes always turn out great!

RRP

I know you were asking about cookies, but when I'm in the cookie baking mode like last week when I baked 19 dozen then that was an indoor oven task - not an egg task.

Ladeback69

If you you do cookies I wouldn't go much over 350 just like you would in an oven.  I tried them once after doing something at 450 or so and they burned up and were rock hard.  I have had cookies backed on the egg and they were great.   Set it up like you would for pizza, but keep temp at 350. I have baked pecan pies and pot pies and they were awesome.

bhedges1987

Okay, so plate setter legs down, put a couple small broken pieces of an old pizza stone on that and place my pizza stone on top of that?  Do I just lay tin foil down on top of that for my cookies to go on?

RRP

Now OTOH if you're talking about @ClayQ Hodag Cookies that's a different kind of SPECIAL! 

bhedges1987

Or do you mean, just put my plate setter in, and something to seperate that from my pizza stone when I put that on?  Would I put my pizza stone on cold with my cookies and some tin foil? THanks!

RRP

bhedges1987 said:

Or do you mean, just put my plate setter in, and something to seperate that from my pizza stone when I put that on?  Would I put my pizza stone on cold with my cookies and some tin foil? THanks!

The plate setter plus a pizza stone is a LOT of ceramic mass and they will need to be separated to get the stone to some uniform temperature and YES they all need to be preheated and well up to your intended baking temperature. BTW how many cookies are you planning to bake? Are they thick or thin? And just to be honest here...is this a "because I CAN bake cookies on my BGE if I want to" effort to show somebody?

bhedges1987

RRP said:

bhedges1987 said:

Or do you mean, just put my plate setter in, and something to seperate that from my pizza stone when I put that on?  Would I put my pizza stone on cold with my cookies and some tin foil? THanks!

The plate setter plus a pizza stone is a LOT of ceramic mass and they will need to be separated to get the stone to some uniform temperature and YES they all need to be preheated and well up to your intended baking temperature. BTW how many cookies are you planning to bake? Are they thick or thin? And just to be honest here...is this a "because I CAN bake cookies on my BGE if I want to" effort to show somebody?

awesome, thanks!  So then just get my cookies on a piece of parchment paper and lay it on there? I'm just baking about a dozen or two normal sized cookies.  Not to show anybody.  Just always heard this thing is the ultimate cooking experience! I want to try it all!

RRP

There's a lot of variables involved here so I'd be flying blindly to help you much further. I have to assume you are using some recipe so just follow that suggested temperature, time etc. Remember this rule of thumb - anything you can do in an oven can be duplicated in your BGE by following the same recipe.

badinfluence

Dude quite overthinking this. I bake cookies on mine a lot...why cuz in the summer I don't like to heat the kitchen up in the house. I just place the dough right on the stone. No aluminum foil or parchment paper. And yes legs up put the wire rack on the legs and baking stone on that. Pre heat everything to 350.

bhedges1987

They turned out DELICIOUS.... Kinda like a place here in my city " The Cookie Factory." They are slightly crunch , but suppppper soft and chewy on the inside.  I didn't know how big they would turn out, so I only put 6 on each batch.... I wish I had a large egg :(  Thanks for the help.... I have now accomplished, Low n Slow, Searing, Grilling, Roasting, Baking.... What am I missing!?

rossv1

Those look awesome. You've done it all so it's time to give your egg away to me, I could use another one. lol