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Gluten-Free Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

PJ Hamel · kingarthurbaking.com · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less fat than 94% of recipes and more chocolate than 89%.

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Soft with just the slightest chew, these cookies are the ideal counterpart to a cold glass of milk or a hot cup of coffee or tea. They feature a generous amount of chips, so if you're someone who like

Author sayschewydescriptionsofttitle
2

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

1

Spread

1

Richness

4

Sweetness

3

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

2/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.82)
  • -0.4small cookies (27 g)
  • -0.3powder and soda

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.4 pts
  • +0.6small cookies (27 g)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.82)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.82)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

2/5 · +0.0 pts
  • -0.927 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.82)
  • +0.3baking powder

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

chewysoftvery chocolatey

Ingredients

unsalted butter85g
light brown sugar213g
king arthur pure vanilla extract8g
table salt2g
baking soda3g
baking powder2g
egg50g
milk28g
gluten-free flour240g
semisweet chocolate chips340g
Total dough weight972g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-14 min
Chill
None
Yield
~36 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.1, 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:Fat2.82 (94th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.13 (40th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.21 (39th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.42 (89th percentile)
Fat %8.77 (5th percentile)
Sugar %21.9 (62th percentile)
Hydration0.33 (66th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.82

Flour:Sugar

1.13

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.21

Chocolate:Flour

1.42

Fat %

8.77

Sugar %

21.9

Flour %

24.7

Hydration

0.33

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