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Vegan Brown Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

food52.com · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 87% of recipes and less egg than 78%.

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That's right - a vegan brown butter cookie recipe. It exists. I was inspired by a post on Not Not Nutritious about how you can infuse vegan butter with pecans or other nuts to create a brown butter fl

5

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

3

Spread

4

Richness

2

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

5/5 · +2.7 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +1.0browned butter
  • -0.3powder and soda

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.7 pts
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.35)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.7 pts
  • -0.8browned butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

4/5 · +0.6 pts
  • +0.865 g per cookie
  • -0.5browned butter
  • +0.3baking powder

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

brown butter

Ingredients

all-purpose flour344g
baking soda1g
baking powder2g
vegan butter227g
chopped pecans105g
brown sugar210g
vanilla extract13g
non-dairy milk122g
applesauce27g
vegan chocolate chips128g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~18 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7, 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:Fat1.51 (53th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.64 (80th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.37 (13th percentile)
Fat %19.3 (77th percentile)
Sugar %17.8 (33th percentile)
Hydration0.35 (69th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.51

Flour:Sugar

1.64

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

0.37

Fat %

19.3

Sugar %

17.8

Flour %

29.2

Hydration

0.35

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