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Classic Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies (1 Bowl!)

Minimalist Baker · minimalistbaker.com · 2021 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more chocolate than 85% of recipes and more brown sugar against white than 79%.

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The perfect classic vegan chocolate chip cookie made in 1 bowl! Salty-sweet, buttery, slightly crisp edges, tender center, and gooey chocolate chips. Just 9 ingredients and simple methods required!

Author sayscrispydescriptiongooeydescription
1

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

4

Spread

4

Richness

3

Sweetness

3

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 · +0.2 pts
  • +1.2brown sugar (60% of sugar)
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • -0.3low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • -0.3long bake (375°F, 16 min)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.3 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • +0.8white sugar (40% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (375°F, 16 min)
  • -0.4baking powder only
  • +0.4low hydration (0.00)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +1.9 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (40% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +0.0 pts
  • -0.730 g per cookie
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • +0.3baking powder

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

crispygooeyvery chocolatey

Ingredients

flaxseed meal18g
water45g
packed organic brown sugar70g
organic cane sugar47g
vegan butter114g
vanilla extract8g
unbleached all-purpose flour125g
sea salt3g
baking powder5g
vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips170g
Total dough weight604g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
None
Yield
~20 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.0, 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:Fat1.10 (16th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.07 (33th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.50 (79th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.36 (87th percentile)
Fat %18.8 (73th percentile)
Sugar %19.3 (41th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.10

Flour:Sugar

1.07

Brown:White Sugar

1.50

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

1.36

Fat %

18.8

Sugar %

19.3

Flour %

20.7

Hydration

0

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