Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 24 cookies
Ingredients: 2.667 each all-purpose flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp kosher salt; 1.25 cups unsalted butter; 0.75 each packed light brown sugar; 0.5 each granulated sugar; 2 each eggs; 1 tsp pure vanilla extract; 1 each semisweet chocolate chips; 1 each chocolate wafers

Makinze Gore · delish.com · 2016 · Original Recipe

Why is this easy recipe our perfect chocolate chip cookie? It isn't fussy to make, and has a soft chewy center with crispy edges and plenty of chocolate.

chewiness

crispiness

cakeyness

thickness

spread

richness

sweetness

complexity

very chocolatey

Ingredients

all-purpose flour(320 g.)2.667 each (320g)

baking soda1 tsp (6g)

kosher salt1 tsp (3g)

unsalted butter(2 1/2 sticks, melted)1.25 cups (284g)

packed light brown sugar(150 g.)0.75 each (150g)

granulated sugar(100 g.)0.5 each (100g)

eggs2 each (100g)

pure vanilla extract1 tsp (4g)

semisweet chocolate chips(170 g.)1 each (170g)

chocolate wafers(120 g., preferably 70% cacao or higher)1 each (120g)

Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing: melted butter
Butter: melted
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 10-12 min
Chill: 4 hr
Yield: ~24 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.6. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.13 (20th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.28 (56th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar1.50 (80th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.31 (65th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.91 (51th percentile)

Fat %22.6 (96th percentile)

Sugar %19.9 (46th percentile)

Hydration0.31 (58th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.13

Flour:Sugar

1.28

Brown:White Sugar

1.50

Egg:Flour

0.31

Chocolate:Flour

0.91

Fat %

22.6

Sugar %

19.9

Flour %

25.5

Hydration