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Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

Samantha · spendwithpennies.com · 2021 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more brown sugar against white than 93% of recipes and more sugar than 88%.

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I’m pleased to introduce you to your new favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe! These chocolate chip cookies have been carefully crafted to be perfectly soft, perfectly chewy, and just all around perf

Author sayschewydescriptionsoftdescription
5

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

5

Spread

3

Richness

5

Sweetness

1

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

Every rubric factor that applies to this recipe, with the points it adds or removes. Hover a factor for the mechanism behind it. The displayed thickness score comes from a fitted model that agrees slightly better with authors' words; these are the rubric's reasons.

Chewiness

5/5 · +3.1 pts
  • +1.4brown sugar (71% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.4small cookies (29 g)
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.19)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +0.6small cookies (29 g)
  • +0.6white sugar (29% of sugar)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.19)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -1.2 pts
  • -0.8melted butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (71%)
  • +0.1white sugar (29% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.9 pts
  • -0.829 g per cookie
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.4cornstarch

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

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Ingredients

melted unsalted butter227g
brown sugar250g
granulated sugar100g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract6g
all-purpose flour350g
cornstarch5g
baking soda6g
salt2g
semisweet chocolate chips298g
Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
11-13 min
Chill
None
Yield
~45 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:Fat1.54 (56th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.00 (26th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.50 (94th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.19 (33th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.85 (47th percentile)
Fat %17.3 (60th percentile)
Sugar %26.7 (88th percentile)
Hydration0.19 (26th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.54

Flour:Sugar

1.00

Brown:White Sugar

2.50

Egg:Flour

0.19

Chocolate:Flour

0.85

Fat %

17.3

Sugar %

26.7

Flour %

26.7

Hydration

0.19

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