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Vegan Chocolate Quinoa Cookies

Alyssa · simplyquinoa.com · 2014 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with less fat than 80% of recipes and less egg than 78%.

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They're not just any cookies. Oh no, these babies are chocolate on chocolate, with quinoa and walnuts sprinkled in. Think rich fudgy brownie, but in cookie form.

Author saysgooeydescription
2

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

3

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

2

Spread

1

Richness

2

Sweetness

5

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

2/5 · +0.4 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • -0.7baking powder only
  • -0.4small cookies (25 g)
  • -0.3long bake (375°F, 15 min)
  • -0.2low hydration (0.08)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.2 pts
  • +0.7long or low bake (375°F, 15 min)
  • +0.6small cookies (25 g)
  • -0.4baking powder only
  • +0.3low hydration (0.08)

Cakeyness

3/5 · +1.3 pts
  • +1.2baking powder only
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

3/5 · -0.3 pts
  • -1.125 g per cookie
  • +0.4375°F oven
  • +0.3baking powder

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

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Ingredients

gluten-free all-purpose flour188g
cocoa powder43g
cooked quinoa70g
baking powder5g
fine sea salt2g
light brown sugar93g
coconut sugar70g
vegan butter85g
melted coconut oil27g
tahini6g
pure vanilla extract4g
flax eggs60g
almond milk15g
dark chocolate chunks160g
chopped walnuts70g
Total dough weight898g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
14-16 min
Chill
None
Yield
~36 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.9, 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:Fat1.58 (59th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.15 (41th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.08 (69th percentile)
Fat %13.2 (20th percentile)
Sugar %18.2 (35th percentile)
Hydration0.08 (16th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.58

Flour:Sugar

1.15

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

1.08

Fat %

13.2

Sugar %

18.2

Flour %

20.9

Hydration

0.08

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