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Easy chocolate chip cookies

Sophie Godwin – Cookery writer · bbcgoodfood.com · 2017 · Original Recipe

Learn how to make classic chocolate chip cookies and enjoy them still warm from the oven. Perfect for a bake sale or with your afternoon tea.

2

chewiness

1

crispiness

2

cakeyness

3

thickness

3

spread

2

richness

2

sweetness

3

complexity

balancedclassic

Ingredients

butter softened120g
light brown sugar75g
golden caster sugar75g
egg50g
vanilla extract4g
plain flour180g
bicarbonate of soda2g
dark chocolate cut into chunks150g
Total dough weight656g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-14 min
Chill
None
Yield
~10 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

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Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.50 (52th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.20 (47th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.00 (60th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.28 (59th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.83 (45th percentile)
Fat %18.3 (75th percentile)
Sugar %22.9 (70th percentile)
Hydration0.28 (51th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.50

Flour:Sugar

1.20

Brown:White Sugar

1.00

Egg:Flour

0.28

Chocolate:Flour

0.83

Fat %

18.3

Sugar %

22.9

Flour %

27.5

Hydration

0.28