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Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Allison Mattina · celebratingsweets.com · 2022 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 88% of recipes.

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Get ready for the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies! These cookies have crisp buttery edges, soft centers, and they're packed with chocolate. No chill time required - freshly baked cookies ready in under 30

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3

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

2

Spread

2

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

3/5 · +1.2 pts
  • +1.4brown sugar (68% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.16)
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.20)

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.1 pts
  • +0.7white sugar (32% of sugar)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.16)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.20)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.16)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (68%)
  • +0.1white sugar (32% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +2.3 pts
  • +0.866 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.16)
  • +0.5cold butter
  • +0.4cornstarch

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

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Ingredients

all purpose flour245g
baking soda3g
kosher salt2g
cornstarch8g
chilled unsalted butter114g
brown sugar105g
granulated sugar50g
egg50g
pure vanilla extract6g
semisweet chocolate chunks170g
chopped walnuts35g
Total dough weight787g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
cold
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~12 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.4, 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:Fat2.16 (83th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.58 (78th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.10 (90th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (39th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.69 (34th percentile)
Fat %14.4 (31th percentile)
Sugar %19.7 (43th percentile)
Hydration0.20 (31th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.16

Flour:Sugar

1.58

Brown:White Sugar

2.10

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

0.69

Fat %

14.4

Sugar %

19.7

Flour %

31.1

Hydration

0.20

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