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Copycat Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies

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

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3/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 84% of recipes.

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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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3

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

2

Spread

2

Richness

2

Sweetness

1

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

3/5 · +1.2 pts
  • +1.3brown sugar (67% of sugar)
  • -0.6cake flour
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

1/5 · -0.6 pts
  • -0.8big cookies (159 g)
  • +0.7white sugar (33% of sugar)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.3hot oven (400°F)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +1.0cake flour
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (67%)
  • +0.3big cookies (159 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (33% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +3.3 pts
  • +2.0159 g per cookie
  • +0.5cold butter
  • +0.4400°F oven
  • +0.4cornstarch

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

softthickgooeycake flourcornstarchcold buttersmall yield

Ingredients

unsalted butter227g
light brown sugar200g
granulated sugar100g
eggs100g
cake flour171g
all-purpose flour188g
cornstarch3g
baking soda6g
kosher salt2g
semi-sweet chocolate chips364g
walnuts234g
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

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.9, 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:Fat1.58 (59th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.20 (46th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.00 (86th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.28 (60th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.01 (64th percentile)
Fat %14.2 (28th 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

0.28

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