The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 24 cookies
Ingredients: 2 cups bread flour; 2 sticks butter; 0.75 cups granulated sugar; 0.75 cups packed dark brown sugar; 1 each egg; 1 each egg yolk; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 0.75 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp kosher salt; 8 oz dark chocolate

J. Kenji López-Alt · Serious Eats · 2013 · Original Recipe

Exhaustively tested with scientific approach. Brown butter for nutty toffee flavor, bread flour for chew, hand-chopped chocolate for irregular pockets, extra egg yolk for richness. The Food Lab methodology applied to cookies.

chewiness

crispiness

cakeyness

thickness

spread

richness

sweetness

complexity

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Ingredients

bread flour2 cups (250g)

butter(browned)2 sticks (226g)

granulated sugar0.75 cups (140g)

packed dark brown sugar0.75 cups (140g)

egg1 each (50g)

egg yolk1 each (18g)

vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)

baking soda0.75 tsp (3g)

kosher salt1 tsp (4g)

dark chocolate8 oz (227g)

Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing: brown butter
Butter: browned
Eggs: mixed
Bake Temp: 325°F (163°C)
Bake Time: 11-15 min
Chill: 12 hr
Yield: ~24 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

Recipe Radar

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

Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.4. 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:Sugar0.89 (18th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar1.00 (60th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.27 (57th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.91 (55th percentile)

Fat %21.2 (91th percentile)

Sugar %26.3 (86th percentile)

Hydration0.27 (49th percentile)

Bake Temp325 (5th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.11

Flour:Sugar

0.89

Brown:White Sugar

1.00

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

0.91

Fat %

21.2

Sugar %

26.3

Flour %

23.4

Hydration