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Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yumna Jawad · feelgoodfoodie.net · 2021 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more chocolate than 97% of recipes and more egg than 95%.

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These Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies have a Middle Eastern twist by swapping half the butter in traditional chocolate chip cookies with tahini (sesame paste).

4

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

4

Spread

5

Richness

2

Sweetness

4

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

4/5 · +1.9 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.5long low bake (325°F, 16 min)
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.76)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • +0.2high hydration (0.49)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.6 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.76)
  • +0.7long or low bake (325°F, 16 min)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.2high hydration (0.49)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.49)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (50% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · -0.3 pts
  • -0.337 g per cookie

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

extra yolkvery chocolatey

Ingredients

unsalted butter114g
tahini70g
cane sugar70g
packed light brown sugar70g
egg yolk18g
eggs50g
vanilla extract4g
all purpose flour140g
baking soda5g
sea salt3g
chocolate chips340g
Total dough weight883g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
325°F (163°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
None
Yield
~24 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.6, 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:Fat0.76 (6th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.00 (26th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.00 (61th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.49 (96th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour2.43 (98th percentile)
Fat %20.8 (85th percentile)
Sugar %15.9 (24th percentile)
Hydration0.49 (91th percentile)
Bake Temp325 (5th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

0.76

Flour:Sugar

1.00

Brown:White Sugar

1.00

Egg:Flour

0.49

Chocolate:Flour

2.43

Fat %

20.8

Sugar %

15.9

Flour %

15.9

Hydration

0.49

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