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Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies

Betty Crocker Kitchens · bettycrocker.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more chocolate than 99% of recipes and more egg than 96%.

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These are the ultimate chocolate cookies. Yes, it’s a bold claim, but with dark chocolate mixed in at three different steps, we’ll stand behind it. First, bittersweet chocolate chips (60 percent cacao,

2

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

4

Spread

1

Richness

3

Sweetness

3

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

2/5 · +0.2 pts
  • +1.0melted butter
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • -0.4small cookies (21 g)
  • +0.3high hydration (0.64)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.2 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.6small cookies (21 g)
  • -0.4high hydration (0.64)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • -0.4baking powder only

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.64)
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · -1.6 pts
  • -1.421 g per cookie
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.3baking powder

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

melted buttervery chocolateybig yield

Ingredients

gold medal™ all-purpose flour156g
hershey’s™ special dark™ cocoa22g
baking powder2g
salt2g
butter114g
dark chocolate chips425g
sugar210g
eggs100g
vanilla3g
Total dough weight1.0kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
30 min
Yield
~50 cookies
Sheet Prep
ungreased

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 4.2, 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:Fat1.38 (37th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.74 (8th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.64 (97th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour2.86 (99th percentile)
Fat %11.0 (10th percentile)
Sugar %20.3 (50th percentile)
Hydration0.64 (95th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.38

Flour:Sugar

0.74

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.64

Chocolate:Flour

2.86

Fat %

11.0

Sugar %

20.3

Flour %

15.1

Hydration

0.64

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