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Coconut Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ali · gimmesomeoven.com · 2014 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, and in the middle half of recipes on chocolate, sugar, fat and egg.

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These coconut oil chocolate chip cookies are thick, chewy, soft, chocolate-y, and absolutely delicious!

Author sayschewydescriptionsoftdescriptionthickdescription
4

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

3

Spread

3

Richness

3

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

4/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (51% of sugar)
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.27)

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (49% of sugar)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.27)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.72)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (49% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +2.2 pts
  • +0.72 h chill
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.72)
  • +0.556 g per cookie
  • +0.4cornstarch

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

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Ingredients

coconut oil109g
brown sugar70g
granulated sugar67g
egg50g
vanilla extract8g
all-purpose flour188g
cornstarch5g
baking soda6g
salt1g
semisweet chocolate chips170g
Total dough weight674g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
2 hr
Yield
~12 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 0.3, 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:Fat1.72 (72th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.37 (65th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.05 (66th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.27 (54th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.91 (53th percentile)
Fat %16.2 (46th percentile)
Sugar %20.3 (50th percentile)
Hydration0.27 (46th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.72

Flour:Sugar

1.37

Brown:White Sugar

1.05

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

0.91

Fat %

16.2

Sugar %

20.3

Flour %

27.8

Hydration

0.27

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