Copycat Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Copycat Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 14 min
Yield: 10 cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter; 1 cup light brown sugar; 0.5 cup granulated sugar; 2 each eggs; 1.5 cup cake flour; 1.5 cup all-purpose flour; 1 tsp cornstarch; 1 tsp baking soda; 0.5 tsp kosher salt; 2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips; 2 cup walnuts

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

These Copycat Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies are extra large, extra thick cookies with a soft, gooey inside and loaded with chocolate chips and walnuts. The supersized cookie takes a chocolate c

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complexity

balancedclassic

Ingredients

unsalted butter(2 sticks / 227 g, (cold, cubed))1 cup (227g)

light brown sugar(200 g, (packed))1 cup (200g)

granulated sugar(100 g)0.5 cup (100g)

eggs(room temperature)2 each (100g)

cake flour(170 g)1.5 cup (171g)

all-purpose flour(187.5 g)1.5 cup (188g)

cornstarch1 tsp (3g)

baking soda1 tsp (6g)

kosher salt0.5 tsp (2g)

semi-sweet chocolate chips(364 g)2 cup (364g)

walnuts(234 g, (roughly chopped))2 cup (234g)

Total dough weight1.6kg

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: cold
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 400°F (204°C)
Bake Time: 12-14 min
Chill: 11 min
Yield: ~10 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.8. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.58 (58th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.20 (46th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar2.00 (87th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.28 (59th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour1.01 (63th percentile)

Fat %14.2 (35th percentile)

Sugar %18.8 (40th percentile)

Hydration0.28 (52th percentile)

Bake Temp400 (98th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.58

Flour:Sugar

1.20

Brown:White Sugar

2.00

Egg:Flour

0.28

Chocolate:Flour

1.01

Fat %

14.2

Sugar %

18.8

Flour %

22.5

Hydration