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Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie

ELIZABETHBH · allrecipes.com · 2020 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more chocolate than 85% of recipes and more brown sugar against white than 84%.

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These chewy chocolate chip cookies are big, fat, and delicious. Make your own bakery-style, soft chocolate chip cookies with this easy recipe.

Author sayschewytitlesoftdescriptionthickdescription
5

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

4

Spread

3

Richness

3

Sweetness

1

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

5/5 · +2.7 pts
  • +1.3brown sugar (67% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.5long low bake (325°F, 16 min)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.1 pts
  • +0.7long or low bake (325°F, 16 min)
  • +0.7white sugar (33% of sugar)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.27)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -1.2 pts
  • -0.8melted butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (67%)
  • +0.1white sugar (33% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · +0.1 pts
  • +0.659 g per cookie
  • -0.5melted butter

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

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour250g
baking soda3g
salt2g
packed brown sugar140g
unsalted butter170g
white sugar70g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract13g
semisweet chocolate chips340g
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
325°F (163°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
None
Yield
~18 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.2, 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 (50th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.19 (46th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.00 (86th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.27 (57th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.36 (87th percentile)
Fat %16.1 (45th percentile)
Sugar %19.9 (46th percentile)
Hydration0.27 (50th percentile)
Bake Temp325 (5th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.47

Flour:Sugar

1.19

Brown:White Sugar

2.00

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

1.36

Fat %

16.1

Sugar %

19.9

Flour %

23.7

Hydration

0.27

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