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Bourbon Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Amanda Rettke--iambaker.net · iambaker.net · 2024 · Original Recipe

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5/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more egg than 95% of recipes and more chocolate than 75%.

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Bourbon Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are rich and flavorful, with nutty browned butter, a hint of bourbon, and melty chocolate!

5

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

4

Spread

3

Richness

4

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

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +1.0browned butter
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • +0.2high hydration (0.48)

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.2high hydration (0.48)

Cakeyness

1/5 · +0.1 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.48)
  • -0.8browned butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

5/5 · +1.8 pts
  • +1.024 h chill
  • +1.073 g per cookie
  • -0.5browned butter
  • +0.3baking powder

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

brown butterlong restvery chocolatey

Ingredients

unsalted butter227g
light brown sugar300g
all-purpose flour313g
baking soda6g
kosher salt3g
baking powder2g
eggs150g
bourbon18g
semi-sweet chocolate chips364g
kosher salt6g
Total dough weight1.4kg

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-14 min
Chill
24 hr
Yield
~19 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.3, 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:Fat1.38 (39th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.04 (31th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.48 (95th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.17 (75th percentile)
Fat %16.3 (48th percentile)
Sugar %21.6 (60th percentile)
Hydration0.48 (90th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.38

Flour:Sugar

1.04

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.48

Chocolate:Flour

1.17

Fat %

16.3

Sugar %

21.6

Flour %

22.5

Hydration

0.48

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