These gluten-free peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy and, with only five simple ingredients, they can easily be whipped up by young chefs and enjoyed as an after-school treat.

That is unless you know how to keep cookies soft! There are tips to keeping cookies soft and chewy before, during, and after they're baked to help combat the inevitability of them going stale.

White sugar has a neutral pH, so a higher quantity of white to brown will produce a thinner, denser, flatter cookie. When the goal is a soft, chewy, even gooey cookie, it’s important to not ...