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Candied Ginger & Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies

Minimalist Baker · minimalistbaker.com · 2012 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 3/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 91% of recipes and more sugar than 84%.

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Pillowy chocolate chip cookies with tiny little flecks of homemade candied ginger and sea salt dark chocolate.

2

Chewiness

3

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

4

Spread

1

Richness

5

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

2/5 · +0.6 pts
  • +0.4brown sugar (20% of sugar)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.27)

Crispiness

3/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +1.6white sugar (80% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.27)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.66)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.2white sugar (80% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.1 pts
  • -0.730 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.66)

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

Ingredients

all-purpose flour188g
baking soda3g
ground ginger1g
salt1g
butter113g
sugar47g
brown sugar47g
vanilla extract2g
egg50g
sea salt dark chocolate15g
candied ginger35g
-5 small-medium pieces fresh ginger120g
water140g
sugar140g
Total dough weight900g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~30 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.2, 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:Fat1.66 (69th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.80 (12th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.25 (40th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.27 (54th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %12.6 (17th percentile)
Sugar %25.9 (85th percentile)
Hydration0.27 (46th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.66

Flour:Sugar

0.80

Brown:White Sugar

0.25

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

12.6

Sugar %

25.9

Flour %

20.8

Hydration

0.27

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