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Miso Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cambrea Gordon · cambreabakes.com · 2024 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more fat than 86% of recipes and more egg than 85%.

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Rich brown butter, melty dark chocolate, and a hint of umami miso make these brown butter miso chocolate chip cookies totally irresistible. They have the perfect balance of sweet and savory, with cris

5

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

4

Spread

5

Richness

2

Sweetness

5

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

5/5 · +2.3 pts
  • +1.0browned butter
  • +0.8brown sugar (41% of sugar)
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.38)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.6 pts
  • +1.2white sugar (59% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.26)
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.38)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.38)
  • -0.8browned butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.2white sugar (59% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +0.2 pts
  • -0.5browned butter
  • +0.455 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

unsalted butter199g
white miso paste27g
all-purpose flour250g
baking soda5g
baking powder2g
fine sea salt1g
light brown sugar70g
granulated sugar100g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract6g
bittersweet chocolate wafers140g
chopped semi-sweet chocolate bar70g
Total dough weight937g

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~17 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:Fat1.26 (31th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.47 (70th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.70 (48th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.38 (86th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.84 (46th percentile)
Fat %21.2 (86th percentile)
Sugar %18.1 (35th percentile)
Hydration0.38 (79th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.26

Flour:Sugar

1.47

Brown:White Sugar

0.70

Egg:Flour

0.38

Chocolate:Flour

0.84

Fat %

21.2

Sugar %

18.1

Flour %

26.7

Hydration

0.38

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