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Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

Abby Girl · food.com · 2006 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 94% of recipes and less sugar than 93%.

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Everyone has a favourite chocolate chip cookie recipe, but what intrigued about this recipe was that it had instant vanilla pudding mixed in it. Bet you can't eat just one!

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4

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

1

Spread

4

Richness

1

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.

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

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +1.5brown sugar (75% of sugar)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.24)
  • +0.5white sugar (25% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.36)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.36)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (75%)
  • +0.1white sugar (25% of sugar)

Thickness

3/5 · -0.4 pts
  • -0.436 g per cookie

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

softvery chocolateybig yield

Ingredients

all-purpose flour563g
baking soda12g
butter454g
brown sugar210g
white sugar70g
vanilla instant pudding mix99g
eggs200g
vanilla extract8g
semi-sweet chocolate chips680g
walnuts280g
Total dough weight2.6kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~72 cookies
Sheet Prep
ungreased

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:Fat1.24 (28th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.01 (88th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar3.00 (96th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.36 (77th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.21 (78th percentile)
Fat %17.6 (63th percentile)
Sugar %10.9 (6th percentile)
Hydration0.36 (71th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.24

Flour:Sugar

2.01

Brown:White Sugar

3.00

Egg:Flour

0.36

Chocolate:Flour

1.21

Fat %

17.6

Sugar %

10.9

Flour %

21.8

Hydration

0.36

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