Really Good Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Really Good Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 18 cookies
Ingredients: 1.5 stick salted butter; 0.75 cup brown sugar; 0.25 cup granulated sugar; 1 each egg + 1 egg yolk; 1 tbsp vanilla extract; 2 cup all-purpose flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 0.5 tsp salt; 1.5 cup chocolate chunks; 1 each flaky sea salt

Tieghan Gerard · halfbakedharvest.com · 2026 · Original Recipe

Chewy centers, crisp edges, melty pools of chocolate, browned butter and extra vanilla. The kind of cookies you make once…and then forever!

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complexity

balancedclassic

Ingredients

salted butter(at room temperature)1.5 stick (170g)

brown sugar0.75 cup (105g)

granulated sugar0.25 cup (50g)

egg + 1 egg yolk(at room temperature)1 each (18g)

vanilla extract1 tbsp (13g)

all-purpose flour2 cup (250g)

baking soda1 tsp (6g)

salt0.5 tsp (2g)

chocolate chunks1.5 cup (240g)

flaky sea salt(for sprinkling)1 each (6g)

Total dough weight859g

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: room temp
Eggs: mixed
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 10-12 min
Chill: None
Yield: ~18 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.48 (50th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.61 (80th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar2.10 (90th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.07 (23th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.96 (58th percentile)

Fat %19.7 (85th percentile)

Sugar %18.1 (34th percentile)

Hydration0.07 (16th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.48

Flour:Sugar

1.61

Brown:White Sugar

2.10

Egg:Flour

0.07

Chocolate:Flour

0.96

Fat %

19.7

Sugar %

18.1

Flour %

29.1

Hydration