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Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

Monique Volz of AmbitiousKitchen.com · ambitiouskitchen.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

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4/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 83% of recipes.

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Deliciously soft, grain-free almond flour chocolate chip cookies with rich, caramel-like flavor from brown butter and gooey chocolate in every bite. These cookies are easy to make and the perfect week

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4

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

1

Spread

2

Richness

3

Sweetness

5

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

4/5 · +2.1 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +1.0browned butter
  • -0.5almond flour only
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.59)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.26)

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.3 pts
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.59)
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.26)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.5 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.59)
  • -0.8browned butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

3/5 · -0.2 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.59)
  • -0.5browned butter
  • -0.338 g per cookie

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

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Ingredients

butter (i like using salted butter)76g
packed brown sugar107g
egg50g
vanilla extract4g
packed fine blanched almond flour196g
baking soda3g
salt1g
chocolate chips90g
maldon sea salt6g
Total dough weight533g

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
11-13 min
Chill
None
Yield
~14 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.5, 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:Fat2.59 (92th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.83 (85th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.26 (49th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.46 (16th percentile)
Fat %14.2 (28th percentile)
Sugar %20.1 (47th percentile)
Hydration0.26 (41th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.59

Flour:Sugar

1.83

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.26

Chocolate:Flour

0.46

Fat %

14.2

Sugar %

20.1

Flour %

36.8

Hydration

0.26

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