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Chocolate Chip Cookies with Nutella

Namiko Hirasawa Chen · justonecookbook.com · 2013 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more fat than 87% of recipes and more brown sugar against white than 84%.

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Best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever! Made with brown butter, stuffed with Nutella, and sprinkled with sea salt.

5

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

4

Spread

5

Richness

3

Sweetness

5

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

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +1.3brown sugar (67% of sugar)
  • +1.0browned butter
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.24)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.7white sugar (33% of sugar)
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

1/5 · -1.2 pts
  • -0.8browned butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (67%)
  • +0.1white sugar (33% of sugar)

Thickness

3/5 · -0.5 pts
  • -0.5browned butter

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Ingredients

nutella70g
unsalted butter227g
all-purpose flour281g
baking soda8g
coarse sea salt2g
light brown sugar140g
sugar70g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
pure vanilla extract11g
plain yogurt15g
semisweet chocolate chips85g
dark chocolate chips85g
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
30 min
Yield
~24 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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:Fat1.24 (28th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.34 (61th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.00 (86th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.24 (48th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.60 (25th percentile)
Fat %21.4 (87th percentile)
Sugar %19.8 (45th percentile)
Hydration0.30 (56th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.24

Flour:Sugar

1.34

Brown:White Sugar

2.00

Egg:Flour

0.24

Chocolate:Flour

0.60

Fat %

21.4

Sugar %

19.8

Flour %

26.5

Hydration

0.30

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