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Thick, Soft, and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Marg (CaymanDesigns) · food.com · 2004 · Original Recipe

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5/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less sugar than 76% of recipes.

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I moved out of the house in 1992 but my dad still insist I make his chocolate chip cookies for him. After much searching these are the ones we deemed "best". Soft and chewy but with a lightly crisp ou

Author sayschewytitlecrispydescriptionsofttitlethicktitle
5

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

2

Spread

3

Richness

2

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.

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Chewiness

5/5 · +2.2 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.3 pts
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)
  • +0.4shortening

Thickness

4/5 · +0.1 pts
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • -0.337 g per cookie

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour313g
baking soda6g
salt2g
real butter114g
shortening103g
firmly packed brown sugar210g
vanilla6g
eggs100g
semi-sweet chocolate chips340g
chopped nuts140g
Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~36 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7, 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:Fat1.45 (47th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.49 (71th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.32 (70th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.09 (72th percentile)
Fat %16.2 (47th percentile)
Sugar %15.8 (24th percentile)
Hydration0.32 (63th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.45

Flour:Sugar

1.49

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.32

Chocolate:Flour

1.09

Fat %

16.2

Sugar %

15.8

Flour %

23.5

Hydration

0.32

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