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Applesauce Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yumna Jawad · feelgoodfoodie.net · 2021 · Original Recipe

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2/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less fat than 96% of recipes.

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These easy Applesauce Chocolate Chip Cookies are super soft with great taste and texture but less fat than traditional chocolate chip cookies

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2

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

1

Spread

1

Richness

3

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
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 3.85)
  • -0.1low hydration (0.24)

Crispiness

1/5 · -0.8 pts
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 3.85)
  • -0.4baking powder only
  • +0.1low hydration (0.24)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.1 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 3.85)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

5/5 · +1.1 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 3.85)
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • +0.3baking powder
  • -0.239 g per cookie

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

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Ingredients

all purpose flour210g
baking powder7g
salt2g
packed light brown sugar140g
unsweetened applesauce70g
coconut oil55g
egg50g
vanilla extract2g
chocolate chips170g
Total dough weight705g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~18 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.6, 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:Fat3.85 (98th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.50 (73th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.24 (45th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.81 (42th percentile)
Fat %7.73 (3th percentile)
Sugar %19.9 (45th percentile)
Hydration0.24 (36th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

3.85

Flour:Sugar

1.50

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.24

Chocolate:Flour

0.81

Fat %

7.73

Sugar %

19.9

Flour %

29.8

Hydration

0.24

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