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Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Robyn Stone · addapinch.com · 2013 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 94% of recipes.

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Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies make the perfect addition to your holiday baking. Get this family favorite peppermint chocolate chip cookie recipe. Makes 3 dozen.

4

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

3

Spread

4

Richness

3

Sweetness

3

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.

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Chewiness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +1.5brown sugar (75% of sugar)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.24)

Crispiness

2/5 · +0.9 pts
  • +0.5white sugar (25% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.24)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.85)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (75%)
  • +0.1white sugar (25% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · +0.3 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.85)
  • -0.336 g per cookie

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

Ingredients

butter227g
brown sugar210g
sugar70g
eggs100g
vanilla extract13g
flour420g
sea salt3g
baking soda5g
peppermint chocolate chips255g
Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
8-10 min
Chill
None
Yield
~36 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.0, 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:Fat1.85 (75th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.50 (73th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar3.00 (96th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.24 (45th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.61 (27th percentile)
Fat %17.4 (61th percentile)
Sugar %21.5 (59th percentile)
Hydration0.24 (36th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.85

Flour:Sugar

1.50

Brown:White Sugar

3.00

Egg:Flour

0.24

Chocolate:Flour

0.61

Fat %

17.4

Sugar %

21.5

Flour %

32.3

Hydration

0.24

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