Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 14 min
Yield: 36 cookies
Ingredients: 12 tbsp unsalted butter; 1.25 cup light brown sugar; 0.25 cup light corn syrup; 2 tsp king arthur pure vanilla extract; 0.75 tsp baking powder; 0.75 tsp table salt; 0.25 tsp baking soda; 1 each egg; 2.25 cup king arthur unbleached all-purpose flour; 2 cup semisweet chocolate wafers; 1 cup chopped nuts; 1 each flaky sea salt

King Arthur Test Kitchen · kingarthurbaking.com · 2021 · Original Recipe

Purportedly invented back in the 1930s at the Toll House Restaurant (thus the cookie’s alternate name, Toll House Cookies), in Whitman, Massachusetts, the chocolate chip cookie has become an American

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balancedclassic

Ingredients

unsalted butter(168g, at room temperature)12 tbsp (168g)

light brown sugar(266g, packed)1.25 cup (266g)

light corn syrup(78g)0.25 cup (78g)

king arthur pure vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)

baking powder0.75 tsp (3g)

table salt0.75 tsp (2g)

baking soda0.25 tsp (2g)

egg1 each (50g)

king arthur unbleached all-purpose flour(270g)2.25 cup (270g)

semisweet chocolate wafers(340g)2 cup (340g)

chopped nuts(112g, optional)1 cup (112g)

flaky sea salt(for sprinkling on top)1 each (6g)

Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: room temp
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 375°F (191°C)
Bake Time: 12-14 min
Chill: None
Yield: ~36 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.0. 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:Fat1.61 (60th percentile)

Flour:Sugar0.79 (11th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.18 (32th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour1.26 (82th percentile)

Fat %12.9 (25th percentile)

Sugar %26.4 (87th percentile)

Hydration0.18 (25th percentile)

Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.61

Flour:Sugar

0.79

Brown:White Sugar

Egg:Flour

0.18

Chocolate:Flour

1.26

Fat %

12.9

Sugar %

26.4

Flour %

20.7

Hydration