Secret Cookies

Name: Secret Cookies
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 80 cookies
Ingredients: 0.75 lb salted butter; 1.75 cup granulated sugar; 2 each egg yolks; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 3.5 cup flour; 1 each red

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This recipe has truly been kept a "Secret" for 30 years but now is the time to release it. It was given to me by an elderly lady who had been given it by an even more elderly Swedish lady. The proviso

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Ingredients

salted butter(1 1/2 cups, 3 sticks, or 340g, softened)0.75 lb (340g)

granulated sugar(350g)1.75 cup (350g)

egg yolks2 each (36g)

vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)

flour(450g)3.5 cup (450g)

red(green or multi-colored sugar)1 each (30g)

Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: room temp
Eggs: yolks only
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 10-12 min
Chill: None
Yield: ~80 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.5. 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:Fat1.32 (35th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.29 (56th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.08 (23th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)

Fat %28.0 (99th percentile)

Sugar %28.8 (94th percentile)

Hydration0.08 (16th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.32

Flour:Sugar

1.29

Brown:White Sugar

Egg:Flour

0.08

Chocolate:Flour

Fat %

28.0

Sugar %

28.8

Flour %

37.1

Hydration