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Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Crush Cookies

Melissa Stadler, Modern Honey · modernhoney.com · 2015 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less sugar than 86% of recipes and more brown sugar against white than 84%.

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3

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

1

Spread

2

Richness

1

Sweetness

1

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.

Why it scores this way

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Chewiness

3/5 · +1.2 pts
  • +1.3brown sugar (67% of sugar)
  • -0.6cake flour
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.26)

Crispiness

1/5 · -0.6 pts
  • -0.8big cookies (193 g)
  • +0.7white sugar (33% of sugar)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.3hot oven (410°F)
  • +0.1low hydration (0.26)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.3 pts
  • +1.0cake flour
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.68)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (67%)
  • +0.3big cookies (193 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (33% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +3.9 pts
  • +2.0193 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.68)
  • +0.5cold butter
  • +0.4410°F oven
  • +0.4cornstarch

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

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Ingredients

cold butter227g
brown sugar140g
sugar70g
eggs100g
cake flour171g
flour210g
cornstarch3g
baking soda5g
salt2g
chocolate chips340g
walnuts280g
Total dough weight1.5kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
cold
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
410°F (210°C)
Bake Time
11-13 min
Chill
None
Yield
~8 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.5, 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:Fat1.68 (69th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.81 (85th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.00 (86th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.26 (51th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.89 (50th percentile)
Fat %14.7 (33th percentile)
Sugar %13.6 (13th percentile)
Hydration0.26 (43th percentile)
Bake Temp410 (99th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.68

Flour:Sugar

1.81

Brown:White Sugar

2.00

Egg:Flour

0.26

Chocolate:Flour

0.89

Fat %

14.7

Sugar %

13.6

Flour %

24.6

Hydration

0.26

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