Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 24 cookies
Ingredients: 2 cup all-purpose flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp sea salt; 0.75 cup unsalted butter; 0.5 cup packed brown sugar; 0.5 cup granulated sugar; 1 each egg; 1 each egg yolk; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 1 each dark chocolate chips

Jeanine Donofrio · loveandlemons.com · 2024 · Original Recipe

My best chocolate chip cookie recipe! These homemade cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with gooey chocolate chips. They're also easy to make. No mixer required!

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balancedclassic

Ingredients

all-purpose flour(spooned and leveled)2 cup (250g)

baking soda1 tsp (6g)

sea salt1 tsp (3g)

unsalted butter(1½ sticks, melted and cooled slightly)0.75 cup (170g)

packed brown sugar0.5 cup (70g)

granulated sugar0.5 cup (100g)

egg1 each (50g)

egg yolk1 each (18g)

vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)

dark chocolate chips1 each (170g)

Total dough weight846g

Process

Mixing: melted butter
Butter: melted
Eggs: mixed
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 10-12 min
Chill: 2 hr
Yield: ~24 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.1. 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:Fat1.47 (49th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.47 (70th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0.70 (48th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.27 (57th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.68 (32th percentile)

Fat %20.1 (88th percentile)

Sugar %20.1 (48th percentile)

Hydration0.27 (49th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.47

Flour:Sugar

1.47

Brown:White Sugar

0.70

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

0.68

Fat %

20.1

Sugar %

20.1

Flour %

29.6

Hydration