Joy of Cooking Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Joy of Cooking Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 24 cookies
Ingredients: 1.125 cups all-purpose flour; 1 stick unsalted butter; 0.5 cups granulated sugar; 0.5 cups packed light brown sugar; 1 each egg; 1.5 tsp vanilla extract; 0.5 tsp baking soda; 0.25 tsp salt; 1 cups semisweet chocolate chips; 0.75 cups chopped walnuts

Irma S. Rombauer / Marion Rombauer Becker / Ethan Becker · Joy of Cooking · 1975

The recipe from America's definitive home cookbook. Traditional, no-frills approach. Represents decades of American home baking. Slightly less butter than Toll House, producing a cookie that's a touch more cakey and less spread.

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classichome cookbook standardtraditionalslightly cakeyreliablebrown sugar forward

Ingredients

all-purpose flour(1 cup plus 2 tablespoons)1.125 cups (140g)

unsalted butter(room temperature)1 stick (113g)

granulated sugar0.5 cups (100g)

packed light brown sugar0.5 cups (110g)

egg1 each (50g)

vanilla extract1.5 tsp (6g)

baking soda0.5 tsp (3g)

salt0.25 tsp (2g)

semisweet chocolate chips1 cups (170g)

chopped walnuts(optional)0.75 cups (90g)

Total dough weight784g

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: room temp
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 375°F (191°C)
Bake Time: 8-10 min
Chill: None
Yield: ~24 cookies
Sheet Prep: greased

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.9. 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:Fat1.24 (27th percentile)

Flour:Sugar0.67 (5th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar1.10 (70th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.36 (82th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour1.21 (81th percentile)

Fat %14.4 (38th percentile)

Sugar %26.8 (89th percentile)

Hydration0.36 (75th percentile)

Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.24

Flour:Sugar

0.67

Brown:White Sugar

1.10

Egg:Flour

0.36

Chocolate:Flour

1.21

Fat %

14.4

Sugar %

26.8

Flour %

17.9

Hydration