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Chewy Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chahinez Tabet Aoul · lifestyleofafoodie.com · 2020 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more fat than 92% of recipes and less chocolate than 91%.

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These chewy soft tahini chocolate chip cookies taste just like chocolatey halva. They are made with tahini to make them extra nutty without adding any nuts to the mix!

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3

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

5

Spread

5

Richness

5

Sweetness

4

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

3/5 · +1.2 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (48% of sugar)
  • +0.7yolks only
  • -0.4small cookies (28 g)
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.76)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.26)

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.8 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (52% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.76)
  • +0.6small cookies (28 g)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.26)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.4 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.2white sugar (52% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.5 pts
  • -0.828 g per cookie
  • +0.3baking powder

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

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Ingredients

butter57g
brown sugar47g
granulated sugar50g
egg yolk18g
tahini paste35g
vanilla3g
salt4g
baking powder1g
baking soda2g
whole wheat flour64g
white flour6g
semi sweet70g
sesame seeds30g
sea salt6g
Total dough weight392g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
yolks only
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~14 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.4, 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:Fat0.76 (6th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.72 (7th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.93 (56th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.26 (49th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %23.4 (92th percentile)
Sugar %24.7 (80th percentile)
Hydration0.26 (41th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

0.76

Flour:Sugar

0.72

Brown:White Sugar

0.93

Egg:Flour

0.26

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

23.4

Sugar %

24.7

Flour %

17.9

Hydration

0.26

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