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Chewy Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Makinze Gore · delish.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more chocolate than 85% of recipes and more brown sugar against white than 84%.

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Author sayschewytitle
5

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

5

Spread

4

Richness

5

Sweetness

5

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

5/5 · +2.7 pts
  • +1.3brown sugar (67% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.20)

Crispiness

5/5 · +3.0 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • +0.7long or low bake (325°F, 11 min)
  • +0.7white sugar (33% of sugar)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.20)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -1.2 pts
  • -0.8melted butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (67%)
  • +0.1white sugar (33% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · +0.3 pts
  • +0.866 g per cookie
  • -0.5melted butter

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

chewymelted buttervery chocolatey

Ingredients

butter227g
packed brown sugar200g
granulated sugar100g
egg50g
pure vanilla extract4g
all-purpose flour250g
baking soda6g
kosher salt3g
cinnamon1g
chocolate chips255g
chopped chocolate85g
flaky sea salt6g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
325°F (163°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~18 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.5, 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:Fat1.10 (16th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.83 (14th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.00 (86th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (36th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.36 (87th percentile)
Fat %19.1 (76th percentile)
Sugar %25.3 (82th percentile)
Hydration0.20 (29th percentile)
Bake Temp325 (5th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.10

Flour:Sugar

0.83

Brown:White Sugar

2.00

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

1.36

Fat %

19.1

Sugar %

25.3

Flour %

21.1

Hydration

0.20

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