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Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Natasha Kravchuk · natashaskitchen.com · 2023 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, and in the middle half of recipes on chocolate, sugar, fat and egg.

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Everyone's favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies - soft, moist and loaded with chocolate. There's no chilling required and you'll get perfect cookies every time.

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Chewiness

2

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

2

Spread

4

Richness

2

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 · +1.3 pts
  • +1.2brown sugar (58% of sugar)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.27)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.2 pts
  • +0.8white sugar (42% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.27)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (42% of sugar)

Thickness

3/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • +0.350 g per cookie

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Ingredients

unsalted butter227g
granulated sugar100g
light brown sugar140g
eggs100g
vanilla extract8g
all-purpose flour375g
baking soda6g
salt3g
semi-sweet chocolate chips340g
Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-14 min
Chill
None
Yield
~26 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 0.6, 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:Fat1.65 (66th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.56 (77th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.40 (76th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.27 (54th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.91 (53th percentile)
Fat %17.5 (62th percentile)
Sugar %18.5 (37th percentile)
Hydration0.27 (46th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.65

Flour:Sugar

1.56

Brown:White Sugar

1.40

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

0.91

Fat %

17.5

Sugar %

18.5

Flour %

28.9

Hydration

0.27

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