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Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Adrianna Adarme · acozykitchen.com · 2023 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 88% of recipes.

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These Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies have delicious coffee notes that complement the dark chocolate chunks, topped with flaky sea salt.

4

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

4

Spread

4

Richness

3

Sweetness

4

Flavor add-ins

Scores are 1 to 5 across all 612 recipes. Chewiness, crispiness, cakeyness and thickness are computed from the recipe using a published-science rubric; spread, richness, sweetness and flavor add-ins are percentile ranks of the ingredient numbers. See how it works.

Why it scores this way

Every rubric factor that applies to this recipe, with the points it adds or removes. Hover a factor for the mechanism behind it. The displayed thickness score comes from a fitted model that agrees slightly better with authors' words; these are the rubric's reasons.

Chewiness

4/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +1.4brown sugar (68% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.24)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.4 pts
  • +0.7white sugar (32% of sugar)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.24)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.6 pts
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (68%)
  • +0.1white sugar (32% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · -0.3 pts
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.3baking powder
  • -0.142 g per cookie

Scores are computed from the recipe using a published-science rubric. See how it works.

melted butter

Ingredients

unsalted butter284g
espresso grounds35g
all-purpose flour417g
espresso grounds9g
baking powder7g
baking soda9g
kosher salt2g
firmly packed brown sugar210g
granulated sugar100g
eggs100g
vanilla extract8g
dark chocolate chunks340g
flakes of salt6g
Total dough weight1.5kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~36 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.2, a single number for how far this recipe sits from the typical recipe across all ratios. Each bar is a z-score: how many standard deviations that ratio sits above or below the dataset mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 612 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.47 (48th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.34 (63th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.10 (90th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.24 (47th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.82 (44th percentile)
Fat %18.6 (72th percentile)
Sugar %20.3 (50th percentile)
Hydration0.24 (38th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.47

Flour:Sugar

1.34

Brown:White Sugar

2.10

Egg:Flour

0.24

Chocolate:Flour

0.82

Fat %

18.6

Sugar %

20.3

Flour %

27.3

Hydration

0.24

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