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Triple-Ginger Chocolate Chunk Cookies

food52.com · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more sugar than 94% of recipes and less fat than 77%.

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I'm kind of famous for these cookies. The first version was created many years ago, when I was food editor at Martha Stewart Living. They were a favorite of the staff, and even ended up gracing the co

4

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

5

Spread

2

Richness

5

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 · +1.5 pts
  • +0.8molasses
  • +0.7yolks only
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.2low hydration (0.13)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2low hydration (0.13)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.68)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · +1.9 pts
  • +1.012 h chill
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.68)
  • +0.353 g per cookie

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long restextra yolkmolasses

Ingredients

all-purpose flour285g
baking soda12g
salt2g
ground ginger5g
ground cinnamon3g
ground cloves1g
unsweetened cocoa powder5g
unsalted butter170g
packed light93g
grated fresh ginger9g
egg yolks36g
unsulphured molasses170g
vanilla extract4g
dark chocolate chunks227g
coarsely chopped candied ginger47g
granulated sugar200g
Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
yolks only
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
12 hr
Yield
~24 cookies

Recipe Radar

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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:Fat1.68 (69th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.77 (9th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.13 (26th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.81 (44th percentile)
Fat %13.4 (22th percentile)
Sugar %29.2 (95th percentile)
Hydration0.13 (20th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.68

Flour:Sugar

0.77

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.13

Chocolate:Flour

0.81

Fat %

13.4

Sugar %

29.2

Flour %

22.5

Hydration

0.13

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