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Perfect Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies

Kathy · food.com · 2010 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less fat than 85% of recipes and less sugar than 81%.

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I have trouble with flat cookies ( I blame the high altitude in Colorado), but I successfully achieved a thick cookie with this recipe.

Author saysthicktitle
3

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

1

Spread

1

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

3/5 · +1.3 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.47)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 26 min)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.18)

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.7 pts
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 26 min)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.47)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2low hydration (0.18)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.9 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.47)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

4/5 · +0.6 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.47)

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

thickvery chocolatey

Ingredients

flour560g
baking soda9g
salt2g
unsalted butter227g
dark brown sugar280g
eggs100g
dark rum18g
vanilla extract4g
semi-sweet chocolate chips680g
Total dough weight1.9kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
25-27 min
Chill
None
Yield
~42 cookies
Sheet Prep
ungreased

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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:Fat2.47 (89th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.00 (87th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.18 (31th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.21 (81th percentile)
Fat %12.1 (14th percentile)
Sugar %14.9 (18th percentile)
Hydration0.18 (24th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.47

Flour:Sugar

2.00

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.18

Chocolate:Flour

1.21

Fat %

12.1

Sugar %

14.9

Flour %

29.8

Hydration

0.18

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