Soft Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Nagi · recipetineats.com · 2017 · Original Recipe
Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes
5/5 chewy and 3/5 crisp, with more fat than 83% of recipes.
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Chewiness
Crispiness
Cakeyness
Thickness
Spread
Richness
Sweetness
Flavor add-ins
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Chewiness
5/5 · +2.9 pts- +1.0brown sugar (50% of sugar)
- +1.0melted butter
- +0.7extra yolk
- +0.2baking soda
Crispiness
3/5 · +1.7 pts- +1.0white sugar (50% of sugar)
- +0.4melted butter
- +0.3baking soda
Cakeyness
1/5 · -0.7 pts- -0.8melted butter
- +0.1white sugar (50% of sugar)
Thickness
5/5 · +0.3 pts- +0.866 g per cookie
- -0.5melted butter
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Ingredients
Process
- Mixing
- melted butter
- Butter
- melted
- Eggs
- mixed
- Bake Temp
- 350°F (177°C)
- Bake Time
- 8-10 min
- Chill
- None
- Yield
- ~13 cookies
- Sheet Prep
- parchment
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Outlier Profile
Uniqueness score: 1.0, 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
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Key Ratios
Flour:Fat
1.40
Flour:Sugar
1.75
Brown:White Sugar
1.00
Egg:Flour
0.28
Chocolate:Flour
0.87
Fat %
20.5
Sugar %
16.4
Flour %
28.7
Hydration
0.28
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