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Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies

Trish - Mom On Timeout · momontimeout.com · 2016 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 94% of recipes and less fat than 81%.

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Throwing out ripe bananas is a serious no-no in my book. Don't do it! Make cookies instead! These Easy Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies are sure to become a new favorite - so soft and delicious, they're

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Chewiness

1

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

2

Spread

1

Richness

3

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.

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Chewiness

3/5 · +1.2 pts
  • +1.5brown sugar (74% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.20)
  • -0.3low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.2 pts
  • +0.5white sugar (26% of sugar)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.20)
  • +0.4low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.20)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (74%)
  • +0.1white sugar (26% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +1.1 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.20)
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • +0.4cornstarch
  • -0.337 g per cookie

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour250g
baking soda6g
corn starch9g
salt3g
unsalted butter114g
ripe bananas60g
brown sugar140g
granulated sugar50g
vanilla extract8g
semi-sweet chocolate chips255g
Total dough weight895g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
9-11 min
Chill
30 min
Yield
~24 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.5, 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:Fat2.20 (85th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.32 (58th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.80 (95th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.02 (64th percentile)
Fat %12.7 (18th percentile)
Sugar %21.2 (56th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.20

Flour:Sugar

1.32

Brown:White Sugar

2.80

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

1.02

Fat %

12.7

Sugar %

21.2

Flour %

27.9

Hydration

0

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