Copycat Levain Bakery Cookies

Name: Copycat Levain Bakery Cookies
Cook time: 28 min
Yield: 8 cookies
Ingredients: 2 each all-purpose flour; 1.25 each cake flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 0.25 tsp baking soda; 0.25 tsp kosher salt; 1 cups cold butter; 0.667 each packed brown sugar; 0.667 each granulated sugar; 2 each dark chocolate chips; 1 cups very coarsely chopped walnuts; 2 each eggs

June Xie · delish.com · 2016 · Original Recipe

We cracked the recipe for Levain Bakery's famous chocolate chip cookies on Delish.com.

chewiness

crispiness

cakeyness

thickness

spread

richness

sweetness

complexity

balancedclassic

Ingredients

all-purpose flour2 each (250g)

cake flour1.25 each (156g)

baking powder2 tsp (9g)

baking soda0.25 tsp (2g)

kosher salt0.25 tsp (1g)

cold butter(2 sticks, cubed)1 cups (227g)

packed brown sugar0.667 each (133g)

granulated sugar0.667 each (133g)

dark chocolate chips2 each (340g)

very coarsely chopped walnuts(lightly toasted)1 cups (120g)

eggs(lightly beaten)2 each (100g)

Total dough weight1.5kg

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: cold
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 375°F (191°C)
Bake Time: 26-28 min
Chill: None
Yield: ~8 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

Recipe Radar

How this recipe's ratios compare to the dataset. Gray = population median.

Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.3. 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:Fat1.79 (72th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.52 (75th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar1.00 (60th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.25 (48th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.84 (46th percentile)

Fat %15.4 (47th percentile)

Sugar %18.1 (34th percentile)

Hydration0.25 (40th percentile)

Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.79

Flour:Sugar

1.52

Brown:White Sugar

1.00

Egg:Flour

0.25

Chocolate:Flour

0.84

Fat %

15.4

Sugar %

18.1

Flour %

27.6

Hydration