Amy asks: I just made cookies but added too much salt… other than taste, will it affect the outcome?
BakingSOS says: You are correct–too much salt will only affect the taste of your cookies. It should not affect how the cookies bake or look.
Try tasting a bit of the cookie dough to see if the salty taste is too overpowering. Unless you added significantly more salt than the recipe calls for, it should be all right. However, if you think the cookies really do taste too salty, then this may be one problem that can’t be easily remedied. Your options would be to add a proportional amount of all the other ingredients in the recipe, thus making a larger batch, or to start over.
Amy responds: My cookies turned out fine. I figured it would be about the same if I had used salted butter. Since I used unsalted butter (which is called for in the recipe) I figured an extra teaspoon wouldn’t be too bad. And I was right. It was fun. You just never know how much extra of one thing will upset the balance.
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It will affect not only the taste also the texture. It will be more hard.