There’s something so comforting about homemade cookies. They’re the perfect cure for a crummy day, and they always make the best days just a smidge better. This classic baked good comes in all different sizes and shapes, with different flavors and textures. And one of the best things about homemade cookies is that they don’t have to look perfect.
However, sometimes it’s nice showing off. When you’re making cookies to bring to a potluck or party, such as a cookie swap, you want your treats to look as impressive as possible. Or if gifting a batch to friends and family, you want them to question if those cookies really are homemade.
One way to give them that bakery-window look is to make your cookies as round as possible. While we all know that a lopsided cookie is no less delicious than a round cookie, there’s something supremely satisfying about a perfectly symmetrical cookie.
There’s an easy technique that pops up on social media every so often—and for good reason.
How To Make Perfectly Round Cookies
As TikTok baker, @j_weazy, demonstrates in the viral video (which has now been shared by tens of thousands of people and liked by hundreds of thousands of fans), to get bakery-quality rounded cookies, simply place a drinking glass or round cookie cutter around a just-baked, lopsided cookie on your cookie sheet. Gently swirl it around. And then lift the glass to reveal a perfectly-shaped round cookie.
For this viral trick to work, you have to do it right after you take your cookies out of the oven. If you wait too long and the cookies begin to cool, the edges will no longer be malleable and you’ll risk breaking the cookie.
Make sure whatever tool you use to create the round shape is slightly larger than the cookie itself. You don’t want the edge of the cookie to get cut off. You can use any round tool you like, such as a wide-mouth jar, a drinking glass, a round cookie cutter, or a bowl. As long as it’s round and slightly larger than the cookie, it’ll do.
Use this technique on any round cookie, such as chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles, crinkle cookies, peanut butter cookies, and more.
