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Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pistachios and Black Sesame

food52.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 76% of recipes and more fat than 75%.

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Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pistachios and Black Sesame. Dark, decadent and delicious! Perfect for holiday gift-giving.

4

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

5

Spread

4

Richness

4

Sweetness

4

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

4/5 · +1.8 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.24)

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.25)
  • +0.7long or low bake (325°F, 11 min)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.24)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (50% of sugar)

Thickness

3/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +1.012 h chill
  • +1.074 g per cookie

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

long restextra yolk

Ingredients

all-purpose flour284g
baking soda6g
salt3g
unsalted butter227g
lightly packed brown sugar142g
granulated sugar142g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract2g
black sesame seeds35g
dark chocolate chunks170g
raw pistachios99g
coarse sea salt for topping6g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
325°F (163°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
12 hr
Yield
~16 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.0, 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:Fat1.25 (31th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.00 (26th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.00 (61th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.24 (47th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.60 (24th percentile)
Fat %19.2 (76th percentile)
Sugar %24.0 (75th percentile)
Hydration0.24 (38th percentile)
Bake Temp325 (5th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.25

Flour:Sugar

1.00

Brown:White Sugar

1.00

Egg:Flour

0.24

Chocolate:Flour

0.60

Fat %

19.2

Sugar %

24.0

Flour %

24.0

Hydration

0.24

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