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Original Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mimi in Maine · food.com · 2007 · Original Recipe

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2/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with less sugar than 77% of recipes.

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I got this from a bag of Nestles Chocolate Chips years ago. The recipe is for the Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is the one I always make because they are delicious.

2

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

2

Spread

3

Richness

2

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.

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Chewiness

2/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (50% of sugar)
  • -0.4small cookies (22 g)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 31 min)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.6 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 31 min)
  • +0.6small cookies (22 g)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (50% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -1.3 pts
  • -1.322 g per cookie

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Ingredients

flour315g
baking soda6g
salt3g
soft butter227g
sugar105g
firmly packed light brown sugar105g
vanilla3g
eggs100g
chocolate chips340g
chopped walnuts140g
Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
30-32 min
Chill
None
Yield
~60 cookies
Sheet Prep
ungreased

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 0.9, 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:Fat1.39 (42th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.50 (73th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.00 (61th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.32 (67th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.08 (68th percentile)
Fat %16.9 (55th percentile)
Sugar %15.6 (22th percentile)
Hydration0.32 (60th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.39

Flour:Sugar

1.50

Brown:White Sugar

1.00

Egg:Flour

0.32

Chocolate:Flour

1.08

Fat %

16.9

Sugar %

15.6

Flour %

23.4

Hydration

0.32

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