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Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sabrina Snyder · dinnerthendessert.com · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with less fat than 96% of recipes and less sugar than 81%.

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Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies are moist, buttery, and wonderfully chocolatey. The perfect Thanksgiving dessert with cinnamon and nutmeg.

1

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

1

Spread

1

Richness

1

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

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

1/5 · -1.3 pts
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 4.50)
  • -0.4small cookies (29 g)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.20)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.6small cookies (29 g)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 4.50)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.20)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.3 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 4.50)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +0.8 pts
  • -0.829 g per cookie
  • +0.760 min chill
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 4.50)
  • +0.3baking powder

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

Ingredients

sugar105g
mashed sweet potato70g
vegetable oil55g
egg50g
flour245g
baking powder2g
baking soda3g
cinnamon3g
nutmeg1g
salt1g
semi-sweet chocolate chips170g
Total dough weight704g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
60 min
Yield
~24 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.9, 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:Fat4.50 (99th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.33 (92th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (39th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.69 (34th percentile)
Fat %7.74 (4th percentile)
Sugar %14.9 (18th percentile)
Hydration0.20 (31th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

4.50

Flour:Sugar

2.33

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

0.69

Fat %

7.74

Sugar %

14.9

Flour %

34.8

Hydration

0.20

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