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Brown Butter & Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies

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

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 97% of recipes and more fat than 85%.

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5

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

5

Spread

5

Richness

4

Sweetness

5

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

5/5 · +3.3 pts
  • +1.6brown sugar (81% of sugar)
  • +1.0browned butter
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.2low hydration (0.12)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.1 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.24)
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.4white sugar (19% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2low hydration (0.12)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -1.2 pts
  • -0.8browned butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (81%)
  • +0.1white sugar (19% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · -0.5 pts
  • -0.5browned butter

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour281g
baking soda6g
sea salt2g
unsalted butter226g
packed dark brown sugar210g
granulated sugar50g
egg plus 1 egg yolk18g
vanilla extract8g
plain greek yogurt15g
semi-sweet chocolate chips128g
milk chocolate chips128g
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
30 min
Yield
~24 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.3, 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:Fat1.24 (30th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.08 (34th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar4.20 (98th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.06 (23th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.91 (53th percentile)
Fat %21.1 (86th percentile)
Sugar %24.3 (77th percentile)
Hydration0.12 (19th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.24

Flour:Sugar

1.08

Brown:White Sugar

4.20

Egg:Flour

0.06

Chocolate:Flour

0.91

Fat %

21.1

Sugar %

24.3

Flour %

26.2

Hydration

0.12

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