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Chocolate Chip Cookie Bar Recipe

John Kanell · preppykitchen.com · 2020 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 1/5 crisp, with more sugar than 90% of recipes and more chocolate than 84%.

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These soft and chewy chocolate chip cookie bars are beyond easy to make and full of chocolatey goodness with notes of brown sugar, vanilla, and salt.

Author sayschewydescriptionsoftdescription
5

Chewiness

1

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

5

Spread

2

Richness

5

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

5/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +1.3brown sugar (62% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 56 min)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.37)

Crispiness

1/5 · +0.8 pts
  • -0.8big cookies (80 g)
  • +0.8white sugar (38% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 56 min)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.37)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.1 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.37)
  • -0.8melted butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (62%)
  • +0.3big cookies (80 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (38% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +1.180 g per cookie
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.4cornstarch

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

chewysoftmelted buttercornstarchvery chocolatey

Ingredients

all-purpose flour270g
cornstarch8g
baking soda6g
salt3g
unsalted butter )170g
packed light brown sugar220g
granulated sugar133g
eggs100g
vanilla extract13g
semi-sweet chocolate chips )360g
Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
55-57 min
Chill
None
Yield
~16 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.8, 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:Fat1.59 (60th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.76 (9th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.65 (81th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.37 (84th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.33 (85th percentile)
Fat %13.3 (21th percentile)
Sugar %27.5 (90th percentile)
Hydration0.37 (78th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.59

Flour:Sugar

0.76

Brown:White Sugar

1.65

Egg:Flour

0.37

Chocolate:Flour

1.33

Fat %

13.3

Sugar %

27.5

Flour %

21.0

Hydration

0.37

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