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Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2020 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more chocolate than 90% of recipes and less fat than 89%.

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These zucchini oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are extra soft with chewy centers and crisp edges. You can't taste the vegetable hiding inside! Chill the dough for at least 2 hours before baking.

Author sayschewydescriptioncrispydescriptionsoftdescription
4

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

4

Spread

1

Richness

4

Sweetness

4

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.4oats
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 15 min)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.40)

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (50% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 15 min)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2oats
  • -0.1high hydration (0.40)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.40)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (50% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · +0.6 pts
  • +0.72 h chill
  • -0.142 g per cookie

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

chewycrispysoftvery chocolatey

Ingredients

shredded zucchini (lightly blotted130g
old-fashioned whole rolled oats170g
all-purpose flour125g
baking soda3g
salt2g
ground cinnamon3g
unsalted butter114g
brown sugar100g
granulated sugar100g
egg50g
pure maple syrup20g
pure vanilla extract6g
semi-sweet chocolate chips180g
Total dough weight1.0kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
14-16 min
Chill
2 hr
Yield
~24 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:Fat1.10 (16th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.57 (3th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.00 (61th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.40 (90th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.44 (90th percentile)
Fat %11.3 (11th percentile)
Sugar %21.9 (62th percentile)
Hydration0.40 (83th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.10

Flour:Sugar

0.57

Brown:White Sugar

1.00

Egg:Flour

0.40

Chocolate:Flour

1.44

Fat %

11.3

Sugar %

21.9

Flour %

12.5

Hydration

0.40

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