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Rye Chocolate Chip Cookies

Jonathan Brasil · kingarthurbaking.com · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, and in the middle half of recipes on chocolate, sugar, fat and egg.

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There are regular chocolate chip cookies and then there's this new version, made with rye flour. Once you bake and taste this variation on the classic chocolate chipper, you may never go back to those

4

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

4

Spread

2

Richness

4

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.

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

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (52% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • -0.4small cookies (28 g)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.16)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (48% of sugar)
  • +0.6small cookies (28 g)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2low hydration (0.16)

Cakeyness

1/5 · +0.1 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.87)
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.1white sugar (48% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.7 pts
  • -0.828 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.87)
  • -0.5melted butter

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

melted butter

Ingredients

light brown sugar142g
granulated sugar131g
unsalted butter170g
table salt3g
king arthur pure vanilla extract8g
baking soda6g
egg50g
medium rye flour318g
chocolate chips340g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-14 min
Chill
None
Yield
~42 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 0.9, 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:Fat1.87 (77th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.17 (43th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.08 (70th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.16 (28th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.07 (66th percentile)
Fat %14.6 (33th percentile)
Sugar %23.4 (72th percentile)
Hydration0.16 (22th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.87

Flour:Sugar

1.17

Brown:White Sugar

1.08

Egg:Flour

0.16

Chocolate:Flour

1.07

Fat %

14.6

Sugar %

23.4

Flour %

27.2

Hydration

0.16

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