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Burnt Miso (Brown Butter) Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies

Justine · justinesnacks.com · 2022 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 92% of recipes and more egg than 85%.

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The name says it all, but it still doesn't do this recipe justice. These chocolate chip cookies are filled with rich brown butter flavor, umami miso saltiness and rich dark chocolate. It's like heaven

5

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

4

Spread

3

Richness

4

Sweetness

4

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

5/5 · +2.3 pts
  • +1.4brown sugar (70% of sugar)
  • +1.0browned butter
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.3high hydration (0.56)

Crispiness

1/5 · -0.2 pts
  • +0.6white sugar (30% of sugar)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.4browned butter
  • -0.4baking powder only
  • -0.3high hydration (0.56)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.39)
  • -0.8browned butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (70%)
  • +0.1white sugar (30% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · +0.2 pts
  • -0.5browned butter
  • +0.4cornstarch
  • +0.3baking powder

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

brown buttercornstarch

Ingredients

butter113g
white miso18g
brown sugar118g
milk of choice31g
egg50g
white sugar50g
vanilla extract4g
flour175g
cornstarch8g
baking powder7g
dark chocolate113g
Total dough weight687g

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-14 min
Chill
None
Yield
~16 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.8, 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:Fat1.55 (57th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.04 (31th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.36 (93th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.39 (86th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.65 (30th percentile)
Fat %16.5 (49th percentile)
Sugar %24.5 (79th percentile)
Hydration0.56 (94th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.55

Flour:Sugar

1.04

Brown:White Sugar

2.36

Egg:Flour

0.39

Chocolate:Flour

0.65

Fat %

16.5

Sugar %

24.5

Flour %

25.5

Hydration

0.56

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