Doraisabel Gaxiola

Science fair
EDU 214
5/1/2016

Question
COOKIE TASTING TIME
We are putting 2 things to into consideration for this project:
1. Does freezing cookie dough for a period of time would affect
the taste?
2. Does the cookie dough flavor make a difference?
(Sugar cookie & chocolate chip)

HYPOTHESIS
HYPOTHESIS
8
7
6
5

FROZEN DOUGH
ROOM TEMP. DOUGH

4
3
2
1
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C.C. COOKIE

SUGAR COOKIE

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Chocolate Chip Dough

Sugar Cookie Dough
Plastic wrap
Refrigerator
Cookie Baking sheet (2)
Oven
Optional: Wire cooling rack
Volunteers to taste-test the
cookies (5 people, not
including myself)
Survey (for hypothesis)
Excel/Keynote (to make
graphs for survey results)
Blind folds
5 glasses of milk

PROCEDURE
1.Buy 2 cookie dough tubes, same brand
(Sugar & Chocolate Chip)
2.I froze 2 halves of each of each dough
flavor for 24 hrs & left the other 2 halves
to thaw for 1 hour before baking.
3.Baking time:
First batch contained the thawed out dough

(3 Chocolate Chip & 3

Sugar)

Second batch contained Frozen dough

(3 Chocolate Chip & 3 Sugar)

4.Both batches where put in the oven at the

temp. as indicated on the packaging.
5.We baked the frozen batch first which
took 17 minutes to bake completely.
6.We baked the second thawed batch
which only took 14 minutes to bake.
7.Once the cookies were al cooled down for
about 10 minutes a glass of milk & a blind
fold were given to the 5 tasting judges.

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ROOM TEMP. DOUGH

NO DIFFRENCE

CONCLUSION
As seen previously in the results 2 out the 5 volunteers said they
tasted a slight (better) difference in the chocolate chip cookies
with the frozen dough, while the other 3 volunteers said they did
not taste a difference on either of the cookies. Therefore my
conclusion would be that there is little to no change in taste due
to having frozen or thawed cookie dough nor does the type of
cookie flavor.
Would it had made a difference if it was
Further questions:
store home made cookie dough instead
of store bought?