Cookie Lab

621 recipes
← All Recipes

Pan-Banging Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sarah Kieffer · The Vanilla Bean Baking Book / The New York Times · 2018 · Original Recipe

Famous for the technique of banging the sheet pan on the oven rack during baking to create signature concentric ripples and crinkly edges. The viral cookie technique that spawned thousands of Instagram posts. Thin with dramatic texture.

2

chewiness

4

crispiness

1

cakeyness

2

thickness

5

spread

4

richness

5

sweetness

3

complexity

rippledcrinklypan-bangeddramatic texturecaramelizedthinglossy surfaceviral

Ingredients

all-purpose flour250g
butter226g
granulated sugar300g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract8g
baking soda3g
salt6g
semi-sweet chocolate chips213g
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-16 min
Chill
None
Yield
~20 cookies

Recipe Radar

How this recipe's ratios compare to the dataset. Gray = population median.

Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.0. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.11 (18th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.83 (14th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.27 (57th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.85 (47th percentile)
Fat %21.0 (91th percentile)
Sugar %27.9 (91th percentile)
Hydration0.27 (49th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.11

Flour:Sugar

0.83

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

0.85

Fat %

21.0

Sugar %

27.9

Flour %

23.3

Hydration

0.27