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Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe With Variations

tunasushi · food.com · 2006 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 99% of recipes and less fat than 77%.

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I finally found the BEST recipe after ages and ages of attempts to make the best chocolate chip cookies

2

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

2

Spread

2

Richness

3

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

2/5 · +0.3 pts
  • +1.7brown sugar (85% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.16)
  • -0.5long low bake (300°F, 21 min)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.20)

Crispiness

2/5 · +0.9 pts
  • +0.7long or low bake (300°F, 21 min)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.16)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.3white sugar (15% of sugar)
  • +0.1low hydration (0.20)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.16)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (85%)
  • +0.1white sugar (15% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · +0.4 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.16)
  • -0.534 g per cookie
  • +0.3baking powder

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

Ingredients

butter114g
packed brown sugar140g
granulated sugar25g
egg50g
vanilla6g
flour245g
salt2g
baking soda3g
baking powder2g
instant coffee powder5g
chocolate chips255g
Total dough weight846g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
300°F (149°C)
Bake Time
20-22 min
Chill
None
Yield
~25 cookies
Sheet Prep
greased

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 5.4, 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:Fat2.16 (83th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.49 (70th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar5.60 (99th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (39th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.04 (65th percentile)
Fat %13.4 (22th percentile)
Sugar %19.5 (43th percentile)
Hydration0.20 (31th percentile)
Bake Temp300 (1th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.16

Flour:Sugar

1.49

Brown:White Sugar

5.60

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

1.04

Fat %

13.4

Sugar %

19.5

Flour %

29.0

Hydration

0.20

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