New-Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookies With All Tahini & No Butter

Name: New-Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookies With All Tahini & No Butter
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 32 cookies
Ingredients: 8 oz tahini; 1 cup sugar; 0.667 cup brown sugar; 2 each eggs; 3 tbsp cold water; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 1.25 tsp kosher salt; 0.75 tsp baking soda; 2 cup all-purpose flour; 12 oz bittersweet chocolate chunks

null · food52.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Earlier this summer, I was chatting with Lisa Mendelson—one of the owners of Seed & Mill, a tiny tahini haven in Chelsea Market—when she said something shocking: “I don’t use butter anymore.” We were

chewiness

crispiness

cakeyness

thickness

spread

richness

sweetness

complexity

very chocolatey

Ingredients

tahini(227 grams)8 oz (227g)

sugar(200 grams)1 cup (200g)

brown sugar(142 grams)0.667 cup (142g)

eggs2 each (100g)

cold water3 tbsp (27g)

vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)

kosher salt1.25 tsp (4g)

baking soda0.75 tsp (5g)

all-purpose flour(256 grams)2 cup (256g)

bittersweet chocolate chunks(340 grams)12 oz (340g)

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: ~32 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.6. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat0 (2th percentile)

Flour:Sugar0.75 (8th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0.71 (52th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.39 (86th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour1.33 (84th percentile)

Fat %0 (2th percentile)

Sugar %26.1 (86th percentile)

Hydration0.39 (80th percentile)

Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

Flour:Sugar

0.75

Brown:White Sugar

0.71

Egg:Flour

0.39

Chocolate:Flour

1.33

Fat %

Sugar %

26.1

Flour %

19.6

Hydration