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Bakery Style Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Steve_G · food.com · 2004 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, and in the middle half of recipes on chocolate, sugar, fat and egg.

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Chewiness

2

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

4

Spread

2

Richness

3

Sweetness

3

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +1.2brown sugar (58% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.5long low bake (325°F, 19 min)
  • -0.1low hydration (0.26)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8white sugar (42% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (325°F, 19 min)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • -0.4baking powder only
  • +0.1low hydration (0.26)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.1white sugar (42% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +0.764 g per cookie
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.3baking powder

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

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour250g
all-purpose flour16g
baking powder2g
salt2g
unsalted butter170g
brown sugar140g
granulated sugar100g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract8g
chocolate chips255g
walnuts (optional)140g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
325°F (163°C)
Bake Time
18-20 min
Chill
None
Yield
~18 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.8, 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:Fat1.56 (58th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.11 (37th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.40 (76th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.26 (49th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.96 (58th percentile)
Fat %14.8 (34th percentile)
Sugar %20.9 (54th percentile)
Hydration0.26 (41th percentile)
Bake Temp325 (5th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.56

Flour:Sugar

1.11

Brown:White Sugar

1.40

Egg:Flour

0.26

Chocolate:Flour

0.96

Fat %

14.8

Sugar %

20.9

Flour %

23.1

Hydration

0.26

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