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Dark Chocolate Dark Brown Sugar Cookies

Averie Sunshine · averiecooks.com · 2013 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 89% of recipes and more fat than 88%.

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These cookies are the dark ode to sugar cookies. They’re rich, fudgy, intensely chocolaty, soft, and chewy. Both dark cocoa powder and dark brown sugar add depth of flavor, richness, and these not-too

Author sayschewydescriptionsoftdescriptiongooeydescription
5

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

3

Spread

5

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 · +2.5 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.27)

Crispiness

1/5 · -0.1 pts
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.27)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.9 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

3/5 · +1.3 pts
  • +0.72 h chill
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • -0.435 g per cookie
  • +0.4cornstarch

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Ingredients

unsalted butter114g
dark brown sugar )105g
egg50g
vanilla extract13g
all-purpose flour188g
cocoa powder43g
cornstarch3g
baking soda5g
salt1g
Total dough weight519g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
8-10 min
Chill
2 hr
Yield
~15 cookies
Sheet Prep
silpat

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.8, 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:Fat1.65 (66th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.79 (84th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.27 (54th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.23 (10th percentile)
Fat %21.9 (89th percentile)
Sugar %20.2 (49th percentile)
Hydration0.27 (46th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.65

Flour:Sugar

1.79

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

0.23

Fat %

21.9

Sugar %

20.2

Flour %

36.1

Hydration

0.27

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