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Afghani Nan Khatai-Cardamom Spiced Cookies Topped With Pistacios

Leahs Kitchen · food.com · 2010 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more sugar than 93% of recipes and less chocolate than 91%.

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Cardamom spiced melt in your mouth cookies topped with pistachios. Posted for zwt6- Asia found on asiarecipe.com (the yield is estimated)

1

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

4

Spread

5

Richness

5

Sweetness

3

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.

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Chewiness

1/5 · -0.6 pts
  • -0.3low hydration (0.00)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 16 min)

Crispiness

5/5 · +3.1 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.4low hydration (0.00)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.00)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.1 pts
  • -0.731 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.00)

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

Ingredients

white flour210g
sugar140g
oil105g
cardamom9g
pistachios30g
Total dough weight494g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
None
Yield
~16 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.7, 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:Fat2.00 (80th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.50 (73th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %21.3 (87th percentile)
Sugar %28.3 (93th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.00

Flour:Sugar

1.50

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

21.3

Sugar %

28.3

Flour %

42.5

Hydration

0

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