Does ‘Aging’ Your Dough Really Make for a Better Cookie?

Cookies are like snowflakes and cats: Each special in their own way, even the nasty ones. But there is an idea floating around out there that aging your cookie dough can make something that’s already pretty great even better.

So I set out to see if aging your cookie dough actually can make for a better cookie. (And if not that, then what could?)

How do you "age" cookie dough?

Jacques Torres, the chocolatier and lovable head judge on the Netflix show, Nailed It!, has a popular...