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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Ever

Laura · joyfoodsunshine.com · 2018 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more sugar than 76% of recipes.

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This is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever. No funny ingredients, no chilling time, etc. Just a simple, straightforward, amazingly delicious, doughy yet still fully cooked, chocolate chip cook

2

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

4

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

Every rubric factor that applies to this recipe, with the points it adds or removes. Hover a factor for the mechanism behind it. The displayed thickness score comes from a fitted model that agrees slightly better with authors' words; these are the rubric's reasons.

Chewiness

2/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +0.8brown sugar (41% of sugar)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.27)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +1.2white sugar (59% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.27)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.2 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.2white sugar (59% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +1.1 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • +0.3baking powder
  • -0.239 g per cookie

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

Ingredients

salted butter softened227g
granulated sugar200g
light brown sugar packed140g
pure vanilla extract8g
eggs100g
all-purpose flour375g
baking soda6g
baking powder2g
sea salt3g
chocolate chips340g
Total dough weight1.4kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
8-10 min
Chill
None
Yield
~36 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.4, 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:Fat1.65 (66th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.10 (36th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.70 (48th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.27 (54th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.91 (53th percentile)
Fat %16.2 (46th percentile)
Sugar %24.3 (77th percentile)
Hydration0.27 (46th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.65

Flour:Sugar

1.10

Brown:White Sugar

0.70

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

0.91

Fat %

16.2

Sugar %

24.3

Flour %

26.8

Hydration

0.27

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