The Best Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: The Best Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 12 cookies
Ingredients: 8 tbsp salted butter; 0.5 cup white sugar; 0.25 cup packed light brown sugar; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 each egg; 1.5 cup all purpose flour; 0.5 tsp baking soda; 0.25 tsp salt; 0.75 cup chocolate chips

Lindsay Ostrom · pinchofyum.com · 2020 · Original Recipe

These are THE BEST soft chocolate chip cookies! No chilling required. Just ultra thick, soft, classic chocolate chip cookies!

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balancedclassic

Ingredients

salted butter8 tbsp (114g)

white sugar(I like to use raw cane sugar with a coarser texture)0.5 cup (70g)

packed light brown sugar0.25 cup (35g)

vanilla1 tsp (3g)

egg1 each (50g)

all purpose flour(6.75 ounces)1.5 cup (191g)

baking soda0.5 tsp (3g)

salt(but I always add a little extra)0.25 tsp (1g)

chocolate chips(I use a combination of chocolate chips and chocolate chunks)0.75 cup (128g)

Total dough weight594g

Process

Mixing: melted butter
Butter: melted
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 10-12 min
Chill: None
Yield: ~12 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.1. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.69 (69th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.82 (85th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0.50 (42th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.26 (51th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.67 (31th percentile)

Fat %19.1 (82th percentile)

Sugar %17.7 (32th percentile)

Hydration0.26 (43th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.69

Flour:Sugar

1.82

Brown:White Sugar

0.50

Egg:Flour

0.26

Chocolate:Flour

0.67

Fat %

19.1

Sugar %

17.7

Flour %

32.2

Hydration