Welcome to Cookie Lab Notebook — your cozy home for recipes and baking experiments. This guide walks you through everything, step by step. No baking or tech experience needed.
Getting started
Create an account or sign in
From the sign-in page you can either create an account with your email and a password, or choose Continue with Google. Once you’re in, everything you save is private to your account.
Forgot your password?
On the sign-in page, click Forgot password?and enter your email. We’ll send you a link to set a new password. The link is valid for a short time, so use it soon after it arrives.
Finding your way around
The main menu has four areas:
- Dashboard — your home base, with an overview of your baking and simple insights.
- Recipes — your collection of cookie recipes.
- Compare — put bakes side by side to see what changed.
- Logs— the record of every bake you’ve done.
Saving a recipe
Go to Recipes and click New Recipe. You can fill in as much or as little as you like:
- Title and description — what makes this recipe yours.
- Ingredients and instructions — one per line.
- Chill time, oven temperature, bake time, and yield— the numbers you’ll want next time. Bake time can be a range, like “11–13”.
- Photos — add a little gallery. The first photo becomes the cover on the recipe card.
- Tags— labels like “chewy” or “holiday” to help you find things later.
Love a recipe? Tap the heartto mark it a favorite so it’s easy to find.
Logging a bake
This is the heart of the notebook. Every time you bake, add a log so you can learn what works. From Logs (or a recipe), start a new bake log and record:
- Ingredients used— flour brand and type, butter brand and type, your sugar ratio (e.g. “2:1 brown:white”), and vanilla.
- Your kitchen — room temperature and humidity, which quietly change how cookies turn out.
- The bake — chill time, oven temperature, bake time, and rack position (top, middle, or bottom).
- How it turned out — rate spread, chewiness, crispiness, sweetness, appearance, softness, and an overall score from 1 to 5.
- Notes and a photo — anything you want to remember for next time.
Comparing bakes
Head to Compare to line up two or more bakes side by side. It shows what was different between them — a great way to spot why one batch spread more or came out chewier.
Your dashboard & insights
The Dashboard pulls your bakes together into a quick overview and surfaces simple, friendly insights based on your own logs — patterns you might not notice batch to batch.
Handy settings
- °F / °C toggle — switch temperature units to whatever you bake in.
- Light / dark theme — use the toggle to pick the look that suits your kitchen light.
A few tips
- Log a bake right after it comes out of the oven, while the details are fresh.
- Change one thing at a time between bakes — it makes the Compare view far more useful.
- Snap a photo every time; your future self will thank you.
Need a hand?
Stuck or have an idea? Email us any time at cookielabnotebook@gmail.com. Happy baking! 🍪