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Fluffy 1-Bowl Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Minimalist Baker · minimalistbaker.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with less sugar than 98% of recipes and more fat than 78%.

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Tender, wholesome cookies with a light, fluffy texture. Not too sweet, rich with almond butter flavor, and studded with chunks of dark chocolate.

Author sayscakeytitle
5

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

2

Spread

4

Richness

1

Sweetness

5

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

5/5 · +2.3 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • -0.5almond flour only
  • +0.4oats
  • -0.3low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.87)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 16 min)

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.8 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.87)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.4low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2oats

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.7 pts
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

3/5 · -0.6 pts
  • -0.5melted butter
  • -0.435 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

flaxseed meal9g
water23g
ripe banana118g
roasted almond butter76g
coconut oil14g
organic brown sugar27g
pure vanilla extract4g
baking soda3g
baking powder2g
sea salt1g
almond meal47g
oat flour78g
dark chocolate57g
Total dough weight458g

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
10 min
Yield
~13 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.0, 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:Fat0.87 (8th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.89 (96th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.73 (37th percentile)
Fat %19.6 (78th percentile)
Sugar %5.90 (2th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

0.87

Flour:Sugar

2.89

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

0.73

Fat %

19.6

Sugar %

5.90

Flour %

17.0

Hydration

0

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