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Chocolate chip cookies

Jamie Oliver · jamieoliver.com · 2016 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 80% of recipes.

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A really easy chocolate chip cookies recipe from Jamie Oliver; a go-to favourite dessert, perfect for any occasion. Give them a go for some weekend baking.

1

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

2

Spread

3

Richness

3

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

1/5 · -0.8 pts
  • -0.4small cookies (29 g)
  • -0.3long bake (338°F, 21 min)
  • -0.1low hydration (0.25)

Crispiness

5/5 · +3.4 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (338°F, 21 min)
  • +0.6small cookies (29 g)
  • +0.1low hydration (0.25)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.00)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.2 pts
  • -0.829 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.00)

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

Ingredients

unsalted butter100g
golden caster sugar125g
free-range egg50g
vanilla extract4g
self-raising flour200g
fine sea salt1g
quality chocolate100g
Total dough weight580g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
338°F (170°C)
Bake Time
20-22 min
Chill
12 min
Yield
~20 cookies

Recipe Radar

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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:Fat2.00 (80th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.60 (79th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.25 (49th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.50 (19th percentile)
Fat %17.3 (59th percentile)
Sugar %21.6 (60th percentile)
Hydration0.25 (41th percentile)
Bake Temp338 (8th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.00

Flour:Sugar

1.60

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.25

Chocolate:Flour

0.50

Fat %

17.3

Sugar %

21.6

Flour %

34.5

Hydration

0.25

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