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Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies

Lisa Bass · farmhouseonboone.com · 2024 · Original Recipe

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2/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with less fat than 78% of recipes.

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Sourdough chocolate chip cookies are perfectly soft and packed with chocolate chunks. The light tanginess from the sourdough makes the yummiest cookies.

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2

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

3

Spread

2

Richness

4

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

2/5 · +0.7 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (51% of sugar)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.24)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.4 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (49% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.24)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.1 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.85)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.1white sugar (49% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +2.2 pts
  • +0.971 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.85)
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • +0.3baking powder

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

soft

Ingredients

unsalted butter227g
white granulated sugar192g
light brown sugar200g
eggs100g
sourdough discard189g
vanilla extract10g
all purpose flour420g
baking soda6g
baking powder2g
salt8g
chocolate chips340g
Total dough weight1.7kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~24 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.4, 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:Fat1.85 (75th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.07 (33th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.04 (65th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.24 (45th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.81 (42th percentile)
Fat %13.4 (22th percentile)
Sugar %23.1 (70th percentile)
Hydration0.24 (36th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.85

Flour:Sugar

1.07

Brown:White Sugar

1.04

Egg:Flour

0.24

Chocolate:Flour

0.81

Fat %

13.4

Sugar %

23.1

Flour %

24.8

Hydration

0.24

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