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Easy chocolate chip cookies

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

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, and in the middle half of recipes on chocolate, sugar, fat and egg.

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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.

3

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

4

Spread

4

Richness

4

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.

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

3/5 · +1.2 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.3 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (50% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +0.866 g per cookie

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

small yield

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

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 0.7, 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:Fat1.50 (52th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.20 (47th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.00 (61th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.28 (59th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.83 (46th percentile)
Fat %18.3 (68th percentile)
Sugar %22.9 (69th percentile)
Hydration0.28 (52th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th 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

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