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Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

Tessa Arias · handletheheat.com · 2025 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 3/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 92% of recipes and more sugar than 79%.

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Finally, the perfect Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies, with a thick chewy texture, soft center, and golden brown edges. This kitchen-tested, easy recipe can be made in 30 minutes. Now with gluten-f

Author sayschewydescriptionsoftdescriptionthicktitle
3

Chewiness

3

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

4

Spread

3

Richness

5

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

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Chewiness

3/5 · +1.3 pts
  • +1.4brown sugar (71% of sugar)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.26)

Crispiness

3/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.6white sugar (29% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.26)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.68)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (71%)
  • +0.1white sugar (29% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.68)
  • +0.454 g per cookie

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

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour380g
baking soda6g
fine sea salt3g
unsalted butter226g
granulated sugar100g
lightly packed light brown sugar247g
vanilla6g
eggs100g
semisweet chocolate chips340g
Total dough weight1.4kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
None
Yield
~26 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.6, 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:Fat1.68 (70th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.09 (35th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.47 (93th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.26 (51th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.90 (50th percentile)
Fat %16.1 (44th percentile)
Sugar %24.6 (80th percentile)
Hydration0.26 (44th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.68

Flour:Sugar

1.09

Brown:White Sugar

2.47

Egg:Flour

0.26

Chocolate:Flour

0.90

Fat %

16.1

Sugar %

24.6

Flour %

27.0

Hydration

0.26

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