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Cornmeal Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

food52.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more egg than 92% of recipes and more chocolate than 89%.

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These cookies offer just enough of a riff on a classic chocolate chip cookie: cornmeal for crunch, toffee bits for flavor, and sea salt to offset the sweetness.

Author sayscrispydescription
3

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

4

Spread

3

Richness

4

Sweetness

4

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

3/5 · +1.1 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (52% of sugar)
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.06)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.42)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.1 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (48% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.06)
  • -0.8big cookies (93 g)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.42)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.42)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.3big cookies (93 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (48% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +1.493 g per cookie
  • +0.3baking powder

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

crispyvery chocolatey

Ingredients

butter227g
granulated sugar150g
brown sugar160g
vanilla extract8g
salt3g
eggs100g
all-purpose flour240g
baking powder2g
baking soda6g
cornmeal35g
semisweet chocolate chips340g
toffee bits120g
flaky sea salt6g
Total dough weight1.4kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~15 cookies

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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:Fat1.06 (13th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.77 (10th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.07 (69th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.42 (93th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.42 (89th percentile)
Fat %16.2 (47th percentile)
Sugar %22.2 (64th percentile)
Hydration0.42 (86th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.06

Flour:Sugar

0.77

Brown:White Sugar

1.07

Egg:Flour

0.42

Chocolate:Flour

1.42

Fat %

16.2

Sugar %

22.2

Flour %

17.2

Hydration

0.42

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