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Butterscotch Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Tessa Arias · handletheheat.com · 2022 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 99% of recipes and more sugar than 87%.

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Butterscotch Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are ridiculously flavorful and chewy with crisp edges and an ooey gooey center. These salty-sweet treats might just be the best cookies you'll ever t

Author sayschewydescriptioncrispydescriptiongooeydescription
5

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

5

Spread

3

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 · +3.6 pts
  • +1.7brown sugar (86% of sugar)
  • +1.0bread flour
  • +1.0browned butter
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • -0.2low hydration (0.11)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.4 pts
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • -0.5bread flour
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.3white sugar (14% of sugar)
  • +0.2low hydration (0.11)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.7 pts
  • -0.8browned butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (86%)

Thickness

3/5 · +0.5 pts
  • -0.5browned butter
  • +0.4bread flour
  • +0.353 g per cookie
  • +0.3baking powder

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

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Ingredients

unsalted butter226g
all-purpose flour188g
bread flour127g
baking soda6g
baking powder5g
fine sea salt3g
granulated sugar50g
packed dark brown sugar300g
eggs plus 1 egg yolk36g
vanilla6g
chocolate covered caramels198g
semisweet chocolate chips170g
Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
None
Yield
~25 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 4.9, 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:Fat1.39 (44th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.90 (19th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar6.00 (99th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.11 (25th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.17 (76th percentile)
Fat %17.2 (59th percentile)
Sugar %26.6 (88th percentile)
Hydration0.11 (18th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.39

Flour:Sugar

0.90

Brown:White Sugar

6.00

Egg:Flour

0.11

Chocolate:Flour

1.17

Fat %

17.2

Sugar %

26.6

Flour %

23.9

Hydration

0.11

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