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Byron Bay Chocolate Chip Cookies

Nagi · recipetineats.com · 2020 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with less sugar than 92% of recipes and less chocolate than 91%.

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Recipe video above. This is a copycat of Australia's most famous Chocolate Chip Cookies - the Byron Bay Milk Choc Chunk Cookies! Just like the real deal, these are big, crunchy, buttery and loaded wit

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2

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

1

Spread

5

Richness

1

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 · +0.5 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (50% of sugar)
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.3long bake (390°F, 26 min)
  • -0.2low hydration (0.13)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (390°F, 26 min)
  • -0.4baking powder only
  • +0.2low hydration (0.13)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +1.9 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (50% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +0.866 g per cookie
  • +0.4390°F oven
  • +0.3baking powder

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

crispyextra yolk

Ingredients

unsalted butter175g
brown sugar47g
white sugar47g
salt0g
egg yolks )36g
vanilla extract/essence8g
baking powder2g
rice flour70g
flour210g
dark200g
Total dough weight796g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
390°F (199°C)
Bake Time
25-27 min
Chill
None
Yield
~12 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.4, 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:Fat1.60 (61th percentile)
Flour:Sugar3.00 (96th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.00 (61th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.13 (26th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %22.0 (90th percentile)
Sugar %11.7 (8th percentile)
Hydration0.13 (20th percentile)
Bake Temp390 (97th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.60

Flour:Sugar

3.00

Brown:White Sugar

1.00

Egg:Flour

0.13

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

22.0

Sugar %

11.7

Flour %

35.2

Hydration

0.13

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