Altering Recipes

Often, when you use a new recipe for the first time it doesn't turn out exactly the way it should.  There's is almost always some little tweak that needs to be made to tune the recipe for your specific oven, the various ingredients that may vary by brand, or the recipe could have the wrong ratios between ingredients.

New bakers are typically hesitant to alter a recipe that they have never used before, the most common excuse is that the baker themselves followed the recipe wrong.  While this is the case sometimes, making small changes to recipes can improve a recipe that just doesn't work completely for you.

I frequently make changes to recipes when needed.  For example, when I made the Langues de Chat, I had to change the amounts of butter and flour so the cookies wouldn't flatten out to the thinness of air.

Basically what the moral or theme of this post is that you shouldn't be afraid to make changes to recipes.  It's usually necessary and makes the recipe taste or look better.  Making little changes to recipes will perfect the recipe for your particular situation.

Hopefully this slightly encouraged and/or helped you!