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World's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies (By Dorie Greenspan)

blucoat · food.com · 2008 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more egg than 86% of recipes and more chocolate than 85%.

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This recipe makes a perfect chocolate chip cookie that is both chewy and crispy. It is from Dorie Greenspan's excellent cookbook, "BAKING: From My Home to Yours". Including nuts is highly recommended.

Author sayschewydescriptioncrispydescription
3

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

3

Spread

4

Richness

2

Sweetness

3

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

3/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.8brown sugar (40% of sugar)
  • -0.4small cookies (29 g)
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.40)

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.8 pts
  • +1.2white sugar (60% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • +0.6small cookies (29 g)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.40)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.40)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.2white sugar (60% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · -0.4 pts
  • -0.829 g per cookie
  • +0.4375°F oven

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

chewycrispyvery chocolatey

Ingredients

all-purpose flour250g
salt3g
baking soda5g
unsalted butter227g
sugar140g
packed light brown sugar93g
pure vanilla extract8g
eggs100g
store-bought chocolate chips340g
finely chopped walnuts140g
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
~45 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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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:Fat1.10 (16th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.07 (34th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.67 (44th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.40 (90th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.36 (87th percentile)
Fat %17.4 (61th percentile)
Sugar %17.9 (33th percentile)
Hydration0.40 (83th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.10

Flour:Sugar

1.07

Brown:White Sugar

0.67

Egg:Flour

0.40

Chocolate:Flour

1.36

Fat %

17.4

Sugar %

17.9

Flour %

19.1

Hydration

0.40

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