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Buckwheat Chocolate Chip Cookies

David · davidlebovitz.com · 2017 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 90% of recipes and more egg than 85%.

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Adapted from L'appart (Crown Publishing) The following recipe is a happy medium between offering up the hearty taste of buckwheat, with the soft, moist chocolate chip cookie that we all know - and lov

Author sayssoftdescription
5

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

3

Spread

1

Richness

2

Sweetness

4

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

5/5 · +2.6 pts
  • +1.2brown sugar (58% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.39)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.4 pts
  • +0.8white sugar (42% of sugar)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.39)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.7 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.39)
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.1white sugar (42% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.2 pts
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.3baking powder

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

softmelted butterextra yolk

Ingredients

packed light brown sugar90g
granulated sugar65g
butter114g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract6g
all-purpose flour140g
buckwheat flour35g
teaspsoon baking powder3g
baking soda3g
salt2g
coarsely chopped semisweet230g
cocoa nibs27g
walnuts75g
flaky sea salt6g
Total dough weight863g

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~20 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7, 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:Fat1.54 (55th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.13 (40th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.39 (74th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.39 (86th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.15 (9th percentile)
Fat %13.2 (20th percentile)
Sugar %18.0 (34th percentile)
Hydration0.39 (80th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.54

Flour:Sugar

1.13

Brown:White Sugar

1.39

Egg:Flour

0.39

Chocolate:Flour

0.15

Fat %

13.2

Sugar %

18.0

Flour %

20.3

Hydration

0.39

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