Louis, not sure what recipe you're using, but if you want less spread you can increase the flour by 1/4 cup. Changing the leavener won't affect the spread one way or the other. Brown sugar has more invert sugar in it, which will make your cookies more bendy, but again, won't change spread one way or the other. By the way, you can save yourself a lot of hassle and chill time if you go for a scoop, and chill the dough AFTER portioning. Susan

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