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Vegan Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

King Arthur Baking · kingarthurbaking.com · 2020 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 3/5 crisp, with more sugar than 86% of recipes and less egg than 78%.

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Erin Patinkin and Agatha Kulaga, the founders of Ovenly bakery in Brooklyn, delight their customers with this wonderful cookie, which just happens to be vegan.

1

Chewiness

3

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

3

Spread

2

Richness

5

Sweetness

1

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

1/5 · -0.4 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (51% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.26)
  • -0.3low hydration (0.00)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 14 min)

Crispiness

3/5 · +1.9 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (49% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 14 min)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.26)
  • +0.4low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.1 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.26)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.1white sugar (49% of sugar)

Thickness

3/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +1.012 h chill
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.26)
  • +0.3baking powder
  • -0.239 g per cookie

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

long rest

Ingredients

king arthur unbleached all-purpose flour240g
baking powder5g
baking soda5g
table salt2g
vegan chocolate chips213g
granulated sugar100g
light brown sugar106g
vegetable oil106g
flaky sea salt6g
Total dough weight781g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
13-15 min
Chill
12 hr
Yield
~20 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7, 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:Fat2.26 (86th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.17 (43th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.06 (69th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.89 (49th percentile)
Fat %13.6 (23th percentile)
Sugar %26.4 (87th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.26

Flour:Sugar

1.17

Brown:White Sugar

1.06

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

0.89

Fat %

13.6

Sugar %

26.4

Flour %

30.7

Hydration

0

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