Levain Bakery-Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Levain Bakery-Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 14 min
Yield: 8 cookies
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 0.5 cups cake flour; 2 sticks butter; 0.5 cups granulated sugar; 1 cups packed light brown sugar; 2 each eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 0.5 tsp baking soda; 0.5 tsp baking powder; 0.75 tsp salt; 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips; 1 cups walnuts

Levain Bakery (adapted) · Levain Bakery / Various Copycat Recipes · 1995

NYC's famous 6oz behemoth cookies with gooey, underbaked centers and crisp exteriors. Cold butter chunks, massive portions, baked at high heat for short time. The thick, fudgy cookie that launched a thousand copycats.

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gooey centergiantbakery styletall domeunderbakedfudgy interiorcrisp shell

Ingredients

all-purpose flour2 cups (250g)

cake flour0.5 cups (58g)

butter(cold, cubed)2 sticks (226g)

granulated sugar0.5 cups (100g)

packed light brown sugar1 cups (170g)

eggs2 each (100g)

vanilla extract1 tsp (4g)

baking soda0.5 tsp (3g)

baking powder0.5 tsp (2g)

salt0.75 tsp (5g)

semi-sweet chocolate chips2 cups (340g)

walnuts(coarsely chopped)1 cups (120g)

Total dough weight1.4kg

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: cold
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 410°F (210°C)
Bake Time: 10-14 min
Chill: 60 min
Yield: ~8 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.3. 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:Fat1.36 (36th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.14 (41th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar1.70 (83th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.33 (73th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour1.10 (72th percentile)

Fat %16.4 (56th percentile)

Sugar %19.6 (43th percentile)

Hydration0.33 (66th percentile)

Bake Temp410 (99th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.36

Flour:Sugar

1.14

Brown:White Sugar

1.70

Egg:Flour

0.33

Chocolate:Flour

1.10

Fat %

16.4

Sugar %

19.6

Flour %

22.4

Hydration