HOW DO EGGS AFFECT SUGAR COOKIES?

     So I thought it would be fun to experiment with sugar cookies. I wanted to know if and how eggs can affect an overall cookie if more was added or subtracted.

    The first thing I did was find a sugar cookie recipe.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/chewy-sugar-cookies-3364290 Above is the link for the recipe I used. 

First I made the butter-sugar mix and the flour mixture. Divided it into fourths, once both parts were mixed. I did this by weighing both mixtures and then dividing them by four. 

 

This recipe is divided into fourths so as I add eggs to each fourth it is multiplied by four since I didn't do the full recipe for each quadrant of this experiment. 

Then for the first fourth of the batter, I mixed in no eggs. 

For the second fourth, I mixed in one egg.

For the third and fourth, I mixed in two eggs.

And for the last fourth of the batter, I mixed in three eggs.

 Then I lined a baking sheet with parchment paper and scooped all 4 of the mixtures onto the sheet. 

The oven was set at 375 degrees and I baked the cookies for 10 minutes. 

Here are the Results! 

The cookies with no eggs tasted the best, the inside had the consistency of cookie dough and the outside was hard. The cookies with one egg (but for the full recipe it would be 4 eggs)  were okay, I don't have any opinion on this cookie; it was just okay. The cookie with 2 eggs added  (8 for the full recipe) was less than okay; you definitely could tell the main ingredients were eggs; and it had a gritty texture. The Cookie with 3 eggs (12 for the full recipe) had too many eggs! It tasted like eggs and smelled like eggs! I consider this one an omelet with flour. I definitely would not recommend putting 12 eggs in your cookie dough, it's just a bad idea.

Overall I found that it's best to just stick with the recipe because the real sugar cookie recipe was the best in my opinion, but it's okay if you don't have eggs either because that cookie was really good too. It's interesting to see how different ingredients affect the outcome of food.