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Brown Butter Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Tessa Arias · handletheheat.com · 2024 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more sugar than 83% of recipes and less egg than 76%.

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Brown Butter Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies are super chewy pumpkin spice cookies, loaded with caramelized butterscotch flavors and gooey chocolate chips. Not a hint of cakeiness here! This delicious

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5

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

4

Spread

4

Richness

5

Sweetness

5

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

5/5 · +2.2 pts
  • +1.0browned butter
  • +0.7yolks only
  • +0.5brown sugar (25% of sugar)
  • -0.2low hydration (0.09)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +1.5white sugar (75% of sugar)
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.3low hydration (0.09)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.6 pts
  • -0.8browned butter
  • +0.2white sugar (75% of sugar)

Thickness

3/5 · -0.1 pts
  • +1.048 h chill
  • -0.631 g per cookie
  • -0.5browned butter

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

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Ingredients

unsalted butter142g
granulated sugar150g
light brown sugar50g
all-purpose flour204g
fine sea salt1g
baking soda3g
ground cinnamon6g
ground ginger1g
nutmeg1g
cloves0g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract4g
pumpkin puree (see recipe notes)75g
semisweet chocolate chips128g
Total dough weight782g

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
yolks only
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
48 hr
Yield
~25 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.5, 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:Fat1.44 (46th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.02 (29th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.33 (40th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.09 (24th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.63 (29th percentile)
Fat %18.1 (67th percentile)
Sugar %25.6 (83th percentile)
Hydration0.09 (17th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.44

Flour:Sugar

1.02

Brown:White Sugar

0.33

Egg:Flour

0.09

Chocolate:Flour

0.63

Fat %

18.1

Sugar %

25.6

Flour %

26.1

Hydration

0.09

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