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Salted Butter Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

Tieghan Gerard · halfbakedharvest.com · 2024 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with less sugar than 94% of recipes and more egg than 86%.

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Looking for the perfect spring cookies to bake up this weekend...these coconut brown butter chocolate chip cookies will not disappoint!

5

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

1

Spread

2

Richness

1

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

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

5/5 · +2.8 pts
  • +1.2brown sugar (58% of sugar)
  • +1.0browned butter
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.11)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.40)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.4 pts
  • +0.8white sugar (42% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.11)
  • -0.8big cookies (83 g)
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.40)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.40)
  • -0.8browned butter
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3big cookies (83 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (42% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +0.7 pts
  • +1.283 g per cookie
  • -0.5browned butter

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brown butter

Ingredients

salted butter226g
brown sugar93g
granulated sugar67g
eggs100g
vanilla extract13g
all-purpose flour250g
baking soda6g
kosher salt2g
unsweetened coconut flakes500g
chocolate chunks240g
flaky sea salt for sprinkling6g
Total dough weight1.5kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
8-10 min
Chill
None
Yield
~18 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.8, 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:Fat1.11 (18th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.56 (77th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.40 (74th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.40 (90th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.96 (58th percentile)
Fat %15.0 (36th percentile)
Sugar %10.7 (6th percentile)
Hydration0.40 (83th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.11

Flour:Sugar

1.56

Brown:White Sugar

1.40

Egg:Flour

0.40

Chocolate:Flour

0.96

Fat %

15.0

Sugar %

10.7

Flour %

16.6

Hydration

0.40

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