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Refreshing Mint-Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cooking to Perfecti · food.com · 2002 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with less fat than 87% of recipes.

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These yummy cookies look like a regular chocolate chip cookie, but have something extra special.. MiNt! If you are a sucker for the "mint and chocolate" combination, you will love these!

1

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

2

Spread

1

Richness

3

Sweetness

1

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 · -0.8 pts
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.38)
  • -0.4small cookies (21 g)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.20)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.6small cookies (21 g)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.38)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.20)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.38)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.8 pts
  • -1.421 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.38)

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

Ingredients

sugar187g
margarine105g
mint extract1g
egg50g
all-purpose flour250g
baking soda6g
salt2g
mint chocolate chips284g
Total dough weight884g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
11-13 min
Chill
None
Yield
~42 cookies
Sheet Prep
ungreased

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.4, 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:Fat2.38 (88th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.34 (61th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (36th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.14 (74th percentile)
Fat %11.9 (13th percentile)
Sugar %21.1 (55th percentile)
Hydration0.20 (29th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.38

Flour:Sugar

1.34

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

1.14

Fat %

11.9

Sugar %

21.1

Flour %

28.3

Hydration

0.20

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