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Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

food52.com · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more sugar than 85% of recipes and less egg than 78%.

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My Dad has taken the same lunch to work for as long as I can remember: a turkey sandwich, a cube of cheddar cheese, applesauce, potato chips, and Chips Ahoy cookies for dessert. I've worked for years

2

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

3

Spread

2

Richness

5

Sweetness

1

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

2/5 · +0.9 pts
  • +1.2brown sugar (58% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.16)
  • -0.3low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

1/5 · -0.3 pts
  • +0.8white sugar (42% of sugar)
  • -0.8big cookies (153 g)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.16)
  • +0.4low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.8 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.16)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3big cookies (153 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (42% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +3.0 pts
  • +2.0153 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.16)
  • +0.4cornstarch

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

cornstarchsmall yield

Ingredients

earth balance140g
dark brown sugar140g
granulated sugar100g
vanilla extract13g
water35g
whole wheat flour128g
white flour175g
baking soda6g
salt2g
cornstarch8g
vegan chocolate chips170g
Total dough weight917g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~6 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:Fat2.16 (84th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.26 (55th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.40 (76th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.56 (22th percentile)
Fat %15.3 (38th percentile)
Sugar %26.2 (86th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.16

Flour:Sugar

1.26

Brown:White Sugar

1.40

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

0.56

Fat %

15.3

Sugar %

26.2

Flour %

33.0

Hydration

0

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