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Super-Chunk White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with less sugar than 86% of recipes and less egg than 76%.

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These white chocolate macadamia nut cookies are soft-baked style with extra chewy centers. They're absolutely PACKED with white chocolate morsels and salted macadamia nuts. Chilling the cookie dough i

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4

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

2

Spread

2

Richness

1

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.

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Chewiness

4/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • -0.2low hydration (0.07)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.3low hydration (0.07)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.5 pts
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +0.3 pts
  • +0.72 h chill
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.4cornstarch
  • -0.337 g per cookie

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour265g
cornstarch3g
baking soda6g
salt2g
unsalted butter170g
packed light150g
granulated sugar150g
egg + 1 egg yolk18g
pure vanilla extract6g
white chocolate chips210g
roughly chopped macadamia nuts120g
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-14 min
Chill
2 hr
Yield
~30 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7, 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:Fat1.56 (58th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.77 (83th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.07 (23th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.79 (40th percentile)
Fat %15.5 (40th percentile)
Sugar %13.6 (14th percentile)
Hydration0.07 (16th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.56

Flour:Sugar

1.77

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.07

Chocolate:Flour

0.79

Fat %

15.5

Sugar %

13.6

Flour %

24.1

Hydration

0.07

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