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Vegan Levain Chocolate Chip Cookies

Andrew Bernard · makeitdairyfree.com · 2021 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 98% of recipes and less fat than 90%.

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These delicious Vegan Levain Chocolate Chip Cookies are perfectly crispy on the outside with a warm, gooey center, and super thick middle. You'll beg for more!

Author sayscrispydescriptionthicktitlegooeydescription
1

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

1

Spread

1

Richness

2

Sweetness

4

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.

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Chewiness

1/5 · -0.7 pts
  • +1.7brown sugar (84% of sugar)
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • -0.6cake flour
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.12)
  • -0.3low hydration (0.00)
  • -0.3long bake (375°F, 16 min)

Crispiness

1/5 · -0.3 pts
  • -0.8big cookies (181 g)
  • +0.7long or low bake (375°F, 16 min)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.12)
  • -0.4baking powder only
  • +0.4low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3white sugar (16% of sugar)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +3.5 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • +1.0cake flour
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.12)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (84%)
  • +0.3big cookies (181 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (16% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +3.8 pts
  • +2.0181 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.12)
  • +0.5cold butter
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • +0.3baking powder

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

crispythickgooeycake flourcold buttervery chocolateysmall yield

Ingredients

ground flax seed18g
water54g
vegan butter114g
vegan brown sugar160g
vegan cane sugar30g
vanilla extract4g
all purpose flour150g
cake flour *see notes below)90g
baking powder2g
sea salt2g
vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips340g
walnuts115g
salt flakes for topping6g
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
cold
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
None
Yield
~6 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 4.6, 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:Fat2.12 (82th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.26 (55th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar5.33 (99th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.42 (89th percentile)
Fat %10.5 (9th percentile)
Sugar %17.5 (32th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.12

Flour:Sugar

1.26

Brown:White Sugar

5.33

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

1.42

Fat %

10.5

Sugar %

17.5

Flour %

22.1

Hydration

0

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