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Miso Butter Cookies

Namiko Hirasawa Chen · justonecookbook.com · 2020 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 91% of recipes and more fat than 89%.

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Crisp, buttery, and melt-in-your-mouth, these Miso Butter Cookies make the most insanely delicious afternoon treat! They hit the right notes with a serious depth of flavor. You need only 7 pantry ingr

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Chewiness

5

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

1

Spread

5

Richness

1

Sweetness

1

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.

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Chewiness

1/5 · -1.3 pts
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • -0.4small cookies (16 g)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 21 min)
  • +0.1high hydration (0.37)

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.8 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 21 min)
  • +0.6small cookies (16 g)
  • -0.4baking powder only
  • -0.1high hydration (0.37)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +3.7 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.37)
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.84)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.9 pts
  • -1.916 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.84)
  • +0.3baking powder

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

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Ingredients

unsalted butter 1114g
sugar70g
miso18g
egg (at room temperature)50g
all-purpose flour208g
baking powder5g
toasted white sesame seeds27g
toasted black sesame seeds27g
Total dough weight519g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
20-22 min
Chill
30 min
Yield
~32 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.6, 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:Fat1.84 (74th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.98 (96th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.37 (84th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %21.9 (89th percentile)
Sugar %13.5 (13th percentile)
Hydration0.37 (77th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.84

Flour:Sugar

2.98

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.37

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

21.9

Sugar %

13.5

Flour %

40.2

Hydration

0.37

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