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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Kate Davis · bonappetit.com · 2017 · Original Recipe

Prepare for this chocolate-chip brown-butter cookie recipe to ruin you for all others. A combination of toffee candy and bittersweet chocolate set them apart.

4

chewiness

2

crispiness

2

cakeyness

2

thickness

3

spread

2

richness

2

sweetness

3

complexity

chewyvery chocolatey

Ingredients

unsalted butter227g
all-purpose flour250g
baking soda6g
diamond crystal2g
dark brown sugar215g
granulated sugar73g
eggs100g
vanilla extract8g
chocolate toffee bars80g
chocolate wafers (disks216g
flaky sea salt6g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
9-11 min
Chill
None
Yield
~20 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.6. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

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

Flour:Fat1.10 (15th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.87 (16th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.94 (95th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.40 (90th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.18 (77th percentile)
Fat %19.2 (83th percentile)
Sugar %24.3 (78th percentile)
Hydration0.40 (83th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.10

Flour:Sugar

0.87

Brown:White Sugar

2.94

Egg:Flour

0.40

Chocolate:Flour

1.18

Fat %

19.2

Sugar %

24.3

Flour %

21.1

Hydration

0.40