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Levain Bakery Style Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sweet Basil · ohsweetbasil.com · 2021 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with less fat than 80% of recipes and less sugar than 75%.

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Author saysthicktitle
2

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

1

Spread

1

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.

Why it scores this way

Every rubric factor that applies to this recipe, with the points it adds or removes. Hover a factor for the mechanism behind it. The displayed thickness score comes from a fitted model that agrees slightly better with authors' words; these are the rubric's reasons.

Chewiness

2/5 · +0.4 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (51% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.47)
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.18)

Crispiness

1/5 · -0.4 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (49% of sugar)
  • -0.8big cookies (123 g)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.47)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2low hydration (0.18)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.47)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.3big cookies (123 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (49% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +3.2 pts
  • +1.9123 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.47)
  • +0.4cornstarch
  • +0.3baking powder

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

thickcornstarchsmall yield

Ingredients

flour see notes280g
baking soda5g
baking powder6g
cornstarch3g
salt3g
unsalted butter cool114g
brown sugar70g
granulated sugar67g
egg50g
vanilla8g
semi sweet chocolate chips255g
Total dough weight859g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~7 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.3, 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:Fat2.47 (89th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.05 (89th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.05 (66th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.18 (31th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.91 (55th percentile)
Fat %13.2 (20th percentile)
Sugar %15.9 (25th percentile)
Hydration0.18 (24th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.47

Flour:Sugar

2.05

Brown:White Sugar

1.05

Egg:Flour

0.18

Chocolate:Flour

0.91

Fat %

13.2

Sugar %

15.9

Flour %

32.6

Hydration

0.18

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