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Chai Cookies

Ali · gimmesomeoven.com · 2025 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 3/5 crisp, with more sugar than 99% of recipes and more brown sugar against white than 94%.

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4

Chewiness

3

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

5

Spread

4

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.

Why it scores this way

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Chewiness

4/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +1.5brown sugar (75% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.3long bake (375°F, 31 min)
  • -0.2low hydration (0.13)

Crispiness

3/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.7long or low bake (375°F, 31 min)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.5white sugar (25% of sugar)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2low hydration (0.13)

Cakeyness

1/5 · +0.2 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (75%)
  • +0.1white sugar (25% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +0.72 h chill
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • +0.4cornstarch
  • +0.3baking powder
  • +0.146 g per cookie

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

melted buttercornstarch

Ingredients

unsalted butter227g
packed brown sugar300g
maple syrup78g
vanilla extract8g
egg50g
all-purpose flour375g
cornstarch5g
baking powder5g
baking soda3g
fine sea salt3g
ground cinnamon12g
ground ginger6g
ground cardamom6g
ground allspice3g
ground cloves3g
finely ground black pepper2g
granulated sugar100g
chai spice blend6g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
30-32 min
Chill
2 hr
Yield
~26 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 4.4, 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:Fat1.65 (66th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.79 (11th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar3.00 (96th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.13 (26th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %19.0 (75th percentile)
Sugar %40.1 (99th percentile)
Hydration0.13 (20th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.65

Flour:Sugar

0.79

Brown:White Sugar

3.00

Egg:Flour

0.13

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

19.0

Sugar %

40.1

Flour %

31.5

Hydration

0.13

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