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Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies With Maple & Olive Oil

food52.com · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with less fat than 87% of recipes and more sugar than 78%.

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These cookies were born out of a dessert craving at 7 a.m., on a weekday. Chocolate cookies for breakfast, I reasoned, should make a few ingredient concessions to appear moderately virtuous. I started

1

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

2

Spread

1

Richness

4

Sweetness

3

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.

Why it scores this way

Every rubric factor that applies to this recipe, with the points it adds or removes. Hover a factor for the mechanism behind it. The displayed thickness score comes from a fitted model that agrees slightly better with authors' words; these are the rubric's reasons.

Chewiness

1/5 · -0.7 pts
  • +0.8molasses
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.67)
  • -0.3low hydration (0.00)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.67)
  • -0.4baking powder only
  • +0.4low hydration (0.00)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.67)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +0.9 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.67)
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • -0.436 g per cookie
  • +0.3baking powder

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

molasses

Ingredients

all-purpose flour272g
baking powder6g
kosher salt6g
extra-virgin olive oil with a nice102g
maple syrup180g
blackstrap molasses7g
vanilla extract4g
coconut sugar24g
dark chocolate chunks252g
flaky salt9g
Total dough weight862g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~24 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.2, 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:Fat2.67 (92th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.29 (57th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.93 (56th percentile)
Fat %11.8 (13th percentile)
Sugar %24.5 (79th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.67

Flour:Sugar

1.29

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

0.93

Fat %

11.8

Sugar %

24.5

Flour %

31.5

Hydration

0

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