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Saffron Cookies

JennT · food.com · 2008 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more sugar than 93% of recipes and less chocolate than 91%.

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I created this recipe due to my love of saffron and cookies! A tender cleanly sweet cookie that lets the delicate saffron flavor sing through. The longer you can soak the saffron in milk before-hand t

1

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

4

Spread

2

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 · +0.0 pts
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.20)
  • +0.3brown sugar (15% of sugar)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.7 pts
  • +1.7white sugar (85% of sugar)
  • -0.8big cookies (138 g)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.20)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.20)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3big cookies (138 g)
  • +0.3white sugar (85% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +2.6 pts
  • +2.0138 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.20)

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

small yield

Ingredients

milk31g
a pinch saffron strand1g
all-purpose flour250g
baking soda6g
salt2g
butter114g
granulated sugar200g
brown sugar35g
vanilla extract2g
egg50g
slivered almonds140g
Total dough weight830g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-14 min
Chill
None
Yield
~6 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.4, 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:Fat2.20 (85th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.06 (33th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.17 (39th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (36th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %13.7 (24th percentile)
Sugar %28.3 (93th percentile)
Hydration0.32 (65th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.20

Flour:Sugar

1.06

Brown:White Sugar

0.17

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

13.7

Sugar %

28.3

Flour %

30.1

Hydration

0.32

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