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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

Allison Mattina · celebratingsweets.com · 2022 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with less sugar than 95% of recipes and more chocolate than 91%.

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Thick chocolate chip cookie baked in a muffin tin for cupcake-sized cookie treats. These cookies have chewy edges, soft centers, and they're packed with chocolate. Enjoy them as-is or top with butterc

Author sayschewydescriptionsoftdescriptionthickdescription
4

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

2

Spread

4

Richness

1

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.

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Chewiness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +1.4brown sugar (68% of sugar)
  • -0.5long low bake (325°F, 14 min)
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.82)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.1 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.82)
  • -0.8big cookies (129 g)
  • +0.7long or low bake (325°F, 14 min)
  • +0.7white sugar (32% of sugar)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (68%)
  • +0.3big cookies (129 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (32% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +2.4 pts
  • +2.0129 g per cookie
  • +0.4cornstarch

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

chewysoftthickcornstarchvery chocolatey

Ingredients

all purpose flour233g
baking soda3g
kosher salt2g
cornstarch8g
unsalted butter114g
brown sugar105g
granulated sugar50g
egg50g
pure vanilla extract6g
semisweet chocolate chips170g
unsalted butter170g
powdered sugar420g
pure vanilla extract3g
milk15g
unsweetened cocoa powder29g
chocolate shavings170g
Total dough weight1.5kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
325°F (163°C)
Bake Time
13-15 min
Chill
None
Yield
~12 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.0, 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:Fat0.82 (7th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.51 (75th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.10 (90th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.21 (40th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.58 (91th percentile)
Fat %18.3 (69th percentile)
Sugar %10.0 (4th percentile)
Hydration0.28 (52th percentile)
Bake Temp325 (5th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

0.82

Flour:Sugar

1.51

Brown:White Sugar

2.10

Egg:Flour

0.21

Chocolate:Flour

1.58

Fat %

18.3

Sugar %

10.0

Flour %

15.1

Hydration

0.28

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