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Sourdough Discard Chocolate Chip Cookies

Kayla Burton · brokenovenbaking.com · 2022 · Original Recipe

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5/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 75% of recipes.

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These soft, chewy chocolate chip cookies are the best way to use up your sourdough discard!

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5

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

3

Spread

3

Richness

3

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.

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Chewiness

5/5 · +2.8 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.7yolks only
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.19)

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.19)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.9 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

2/5 · +0.3 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • -0.338 g per cookie

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour94g
baking soda3g
salt3g
unsalted butter57g
brown sugar70g
sourdough starter discard35g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract6g
semi-sweet chocolate chips57g
Total dough weight343g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
yolks only
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
9-11 min
Chill
None
Yield
~9 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.1, 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:Fat1.65 (63th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.34 (62th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.19 (33th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.60 (24th percentile)
Fat %16.6 (51th percentile)
Sugar %20.4 (51th percentile)
Hydration0.19 (26th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.65

Flour:Sugar

1.34

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.19

Chocolate:Flour

0.60

Fat %

16.6

Sugar %

20.4

Flour %

27.4

Hydration

0.19

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