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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Gina Homolka · skinnytaste.com · 2023 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

2/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with less fat than 93% of recipes and more egg than 79%.

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These are the best, soft and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies! Lightly sweetened with only 3 tablespoons of coconut oil (in place of butter) in the entire batch!

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Chewiness

2

Crispiness

5

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

1

Spread

1

Richness

3

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.

Why it scores this way

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Chewiness

2/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +0.8brown sugar (41% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 3.43)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

2/5 · +0.9 pts
  • +1.2white sugar (59% of sugar)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 3.43)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.36)

Cakeyness

5/5 · +2.4 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.36)
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 3.43)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.2white sugar (59% of sugar)

Thickness

3/5 · +0.2 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 3.43)
  • -0.436 g per cookie

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

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Ingredients

granulated sugar50g
brown sugar35g
coconut oil41g
egg50g
apple sauce18g
vanilla extract4g
all purpose flour140g
baking soda2g
kosher salt0g
chocolate chips )85g
sea salt6g
Total dough weight431g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~12 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:Fat3.43 (96th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.65 (81th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.70 (48th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.36 (82th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.61 (27th percentile)
Fat %9.47 (7th percentile)
Sugar %19.7 (44th percentile)
Hydration0.36 (75th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

3.43

Flour:Sugar

1.65

Brown:White Sugar

0.70

Egg:Flour

0.36

Chocolate:Flour

0.61

Fat %

9.47

Sugar %

19.7

Flour %

32.5

Hydration

0.36

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