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Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 3/5 crisp, with less sugar than 95% of recipes and less egg than 76%.

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This quick & easy cookie recipe produces 6 giant chocolate chip cookies. Adapted from my popular chewy chocolate chip cookies, these cookies are a heaping 1/2 cup of cookie dough each and there's NO c

Author sayschewydescription
2

Chewiness

3

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

1

Spread

3

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

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Chewiness

2/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.5long low bake (325°F, 26 min)
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • -0.2low hydration (0.06)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

3/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • -0.8big cookies (168 g)
  • +0.7long or low bake (325°F, 26 min)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.3low hydration (0.06)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3big cookies (168 g)
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +3.0 pts
  • +2.0168 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • +0.4cornstarch

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

chewyextra yolkcornstarchsmall yield

Ingredients

all-purpose flour281g
cornstarch4g
baking soda6g
salt2g
unsalted butter170g
packed light150g
granulated sugar100g
egg + 1 egg yolk18g
pure vanilla extract8g
semi-sweet chocolate chips270g
Total dough weight1.0kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
325°F (163°C)
Bake Time
25-27 min
Chill
None
Yield
~6 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.9, 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:Fat1.65 (63th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.81 (95th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.06 (23th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.96 (58th percentile)
Fat %16.9 (55th percentile)
Sugar %9.91 (4th percentile)
Hydration0.06 (16th percentile)
Bake Temp325 (5th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.65

Flour:Sugar

2.81

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.06

Chocolate:Flour

0.96

Fat %

16.9

Sugar %

9.91

Flour %

27.8

Hydration

0.06

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