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Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Bianca Zapatka · biancazapatka.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less egg than 78% of recipes and less chocolate than 77%.

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These Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are made of an easy vegan chocolate chip cookie bar recipe with a layer of gooey homemade caramel sauce inside. This vegan cookie bar recipe is so delic

Author saysgooeydescription
4

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

2

Spread

2

Richness

2

Sweetness

4

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

4/5 · +1.9 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.5high hydration (0.78)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.3long bake (355°F, 31 min)

Crispiness

1/5 · -0.4 pts
  • -0.8big cookies (197 g)
  • +0.7long or low bake (355°F, 31 min)
  • -0.6high hydration (0.78)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)
  • +0.3big cookies (197 g)

Thickness

5/5 · +2.3 pts
  • +2.0197 g per cookie
  • +0.3baking powder

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

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Ingredients

flax eggs60g
all-purpose flour313g
baking powder5g
baking soda6g
salt3g
vegan butter227g
brown sugar250g
vanilla extract4g
vegan chocolate chips180g
vegan soft caramels280g
sweetened condensed coconut milk244g
sea salt3g
Total dough weight1.6kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
355°F (179°C)
Bake Time
30-32 min
Chill
15 min
Yield
~8 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.9, 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 (39th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.25 (52th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.58 (23th percentile)
Fat %14.4 (32th percentile)
Sugar %15.9 (24th percentile)
Hydration0.78 (96th percentile)
Bake Temp355 (75th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.38

Flour:Sugar

1.25

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

0.58

Fat %

14.4

Sugar %

15.9

Flour %

19.9

Hydration

0.78

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