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Chocolate Orange-Cardamon Cookies

Sherri L. · food.com · 2014 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more sugar than 99% of recipes and less chocolate than 90%.

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1

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

5

Spread

3

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.

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

1/5 · -1.0 pts
  • -0.7extra egg white
  • -0.4small cookies (25 g)
  • +0.1high hydration (0.38)

Crispiness

5/5 · +3.6 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.29)
  • +0.6small cookies (25 g)
  • +0.3extra egg white
  • -0.1high hydration (0.38)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.1 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.38)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.4extra egg white
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -1.1 pts
  • -1.125 g per cookie

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

extra egg white

Ingredients

all-purpose flour219g
unsweetened cocoa powder43g
salt1g
ground cardamom2g
unsalted butter170g
granulated sugar200g
orange zest9g
egg50g
vanilla extract6g
egg white33g
gold crystal sugar200g
edible glitter30g
gold luster dust30g
Total dough weight993g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
9-10 min
Chill
20 min
Yield
~40 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.7, 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:Fat1.29 (33th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.55 (3th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.38 (85th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.20 (10th percentile)
Fat %17.1 (58th percentile)
Sugar %40.3 (99th percentile)
Hydration0.38 (79th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.29

Flour:Sugar

0.55

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.38

Chocolate:Flour

0.20

Fat %

17.1

Sugar %

40.3

Flour %

22.0

Hydration

0.38

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