Miso Butter Cookies

Name: Miso Butter Cookies
Cook time: 22 min
Yield: 32 cookies
Ingredients: 0.5 cup unsalted butter 1; 0.5 cup sugar; 2 tbsp miso; 1 each egg (at room temperature); 1.667 cup all-purpose flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 3 tbsp toasted white sesame seeds; 3 tbsp toasted black sesame seeds

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

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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Ingredients

unsalted butter 1(1 stick; at room temperature)0.5 cup (114g)

sugar0.5 cup (70g)

miso(I use mild and mellow white miso; a different miso type will give a slightly different taste and color; reduce the amount if you‘re using saltier red miso or dashi-included miso)2 tbsp (18g)

egg (at room temperature)(50 g each w/o shell)1 each (50g)

all-purpose flour(weigh your flour or use the “fluff and sprinkle“ method and level it off)1.667 cup (208g)

baking powder1 tsp (5g)

toasted white sesame seeds3 tbsp (27g)

toasted black sesame seeds3 tbsp (27g)

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: 2.8. 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:Fat1.84 (73th percentile)

Flour:Sugar2.98 (96th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.37 (84th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)

Fat %21.9 (94th percentile)

Sugar %13.5 (13th percentile)

Hydration0.37 (77th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.84

Flour:Sugar

2.98

Brown:White Sugar

Egg:Flour

0.37

Chocolate:Flour

Fat %

21.9

Sugar %

13.5

Flour %

40.2

Hydration