10 Essential Tools For Baking Cookies, Plus 8 That Are Really Nice to Have

Creaming together butter and sugar is an essential step in many cookie recipes, as it both incorporates air into the finished product and creates homogenous dough. To do this properly, you'll need a mixer of some sort. If you have a small kitchen (or only bake occasionally), OXO's hand mixer ($80) is a better option than a stand mixer, since it takes up much less space and is a fraction of the price.