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imperial chocolate chip cookies

Macintosh · cookpad.com · 2013 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 94% of recipes and less chocolate than 91%.

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seen this recipe on back of Imperial spread and worth making soo yummy :cookie

2

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

1

Spread

4

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.

Why it scores this way

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Chewiness

2/5 · +0.6 pts
  • +1.4brown sugar (73% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.67)
  • -0.4small cookies (17 g)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.18)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.1 pts
  • +0.6small cookies (17 g)
  • +0.6white sugar (27% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.67)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2low hydration (0.18)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.67)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (73%)
  • +0.1white sugar (27% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -1.2 pts
  • -1.817 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.67)

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Ingredients

firmly packed light brown sugar93g
sugar35g
vanilla5g
egg50g
baking soda3g
flour280g
semi sweet chocolate chips30g
imperial margarine105g
Total dough weight601g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~36 cookies
Sheet Prep
ungreased

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.4, 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:Fat2.67 (92th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.18 (90th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.67 (94th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.18 (31th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.11 (9th percentile)
Fat %17.5 (62th percentile)
Sugar %21.4 (58th percentile)
Hydration0.18 (24th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.67

Flour:Sugar

2.18

Brown:White Sugar

2.67

Egg:Flour

0.18

Chocolate:Flour

0.11

Fat %

17.5

Sugar %

21.4

Flour %

46.6

Hydration

0.18

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