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Alton Brown - Chewy Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Feej3940 · food.com · 2007 · Original Recipe

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5/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 98% of recipes.

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Adapted from "Good Eats". We thought we would give it a try. My husband was told to try to reduce his wheat & gluten. They are SO GOOD! You wouldn't even know they were gluten free! This was my first

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5

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

3

Spread

4

Richness

2

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

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Chewiness

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +1.7brown sugar (83% of sugar)
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.1 pts
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.3white sugar (17% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

1/5 · +0.1 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (83%)
  • +0.1white sugar (17% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +1.4 pts
  • +0.760 min chill
  • +0.4cornstarch
  • +0.351 g per cookie

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

chewyextra yolkcornstarch

Ingredients

butter227g
brown rice flour280g
cornstarch32g
tapioca flour18g
xanthan gum3g
kosher salt2g
baking soda6g
sugar35g
brown sugar175g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
milk31g
vanilla5g
semi-sweet chocolate chips340g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
Not stated
Chill
60 min
Yield
~24 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.8, 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:Fat1.31 (34th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.42 (67th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar5.00 (98th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.23 (42th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.14 (75th percentile)
Fat %18.6 (72th percentile)
Sugar %17.2 (31th percentile)
Hydration0.33 (66th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.31

Flour:Sugar

1.42

Brown:White Sugar

5.00

Egg:Flour

0.23

Chocolate:Flour

1.14

Fat %

18.6

Sugar %

17.2

Flour %

24.4

Hydration

0.33

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