South African Chocolate Pepper Cookies

Name: South African Chocolate Pepper Cookies
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 40 cookies
Ingredients: 1 lb bittersweet chocolate; 12 tbsp butter; 0.667 cup brown sugar; 2 each eggs; 2 cup all-purpose flour; 0.667 tsp baking soda; 1 tbsp freshly ground black pepper

null · food52.com · 2015 · Original Recipe

Text and recipe from Where Flavor Was Born by Andreas Viestad (Chronicle, 2007). "I grew addicted to chocolate pepper cookies when I was staying in Cape Town while writing this book. The addition of a

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Ingredients

bittersweet chocolate(chopped and divided)1 lb (454g)

butter(at room temperature)12 tbsp (170g)

brown sugar0.667 cup (93g)

eggs2 each (100g)

all-purpose flour2 cup (250g)

baking soda0.667 tsp (4g)

freshly ground black pepper1 tbsp (9g)

Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: room temp
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 10-12 min
Chill: 30 min
Yield: ~40 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.9. 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:Fat1.47 (47th percentile)

Flour:Sugar2.68 (94th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.40 (90th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour1.82 (95th percentile)

Fat %15.8 (49th percentile)

Sugar %8.63 (3th percentile)

Hydration0.40 (83th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.47

Flour:Sugar

2.68

Brown:White Sugar

Egg:Flour

0.40

Chocolate:Flour

1.82

Fat %

15.8

Sugar %

8.63

Flour %

23.1

Hydration