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Bakery-Style Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2023 · Original Recipe

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2/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more fat than 99% of recipes and more chocolate than 75%.

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These big bakery-style peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are super thick, ultra-soft, and filled with chocolate chips. It's best to use creamy peanut butter, and be sure to chill the cookie dough i

Author sayssoftdescriptionthicktitle
2

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

5

Spread

5

Richness

4

Sweetness

3

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

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Chewiness

2/5 · +0.4 pts
  • +0.7brown sugar (33% of sugar)
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.43)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 16 min)

Crispiness

5/5 · +3.1 pts
  • +1.3white sugar (67% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.43)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.4 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.2white sugar (67% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.760 min chill
  • +0.662 g per cookie
  • +0.3baking powder

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

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour313g
baking powder5g
baking soda6g
salt2g
unsalted butter227g
granulated sugar200g
packed light brown sugar150g
eggs100g
creamy peanut butter500g
pure vanilla extract8g
semi-sweet chocolate chips360g
granulated sugar100g
Total dough weight2.0kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
60 min
Yield
~32 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.9, 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:Fat0.43 (3th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.70 (6th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.50 (42th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.32 (68th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.15 (75th percentile)
Fat %36.9 (99th percentile)
Sugar %22.8 (68th percentile)
Hydration0.32 (61th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

0.43

Flour:Sugar

0.70

Brown:White Sugar

0.50

Egg:Flour

0.32

Chocolate:Flour

1.15

Fat %

36.9

Sugar %

22.8

Flour %

15.9

Hydration

0.32

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