Newcomers to baking also love that mostcookie recipescan be made with a minimum of equipment.

How important is this cookie cooling rack?

What can you substitute if you don’t have one?

Chocolate-Mint Snow-Top Cookies

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Here are some straightforward answers.

Do I Need a Cooling Rack to Cool Cookies?

A cookie cooling rack allows air to circulate under the cookies, cooling them quickly and completely.

Good news: If you don’t have a cookie cooling rack, there’s a workaround.

This method creates more waste, but it works as a substitute.

How Long to Let Cookies Cool?

That last point might have you wondering how long tolet cookies cool.

But do so once, and you’ll never make that mistake again!

Too-hot cookies can burn your fingers and mouth (melty-hot sugar isreally, really hot!).

Plus, you gotta cool cookies to give them a chance to firm up and keep their shape.

Finally, too-hot cookies will likely fall apart in your hands.

However, as we all know, warm cookies are a wonderful thing.

And cookies, of course.