Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 14 min
Yield: 20 cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter; 1 cup light; 0.667 cup white sugar; 2 each eggs; 1.5 tsp vanilla extract; 2.75 cup all-purpose flour; 1 tsp cornstarch; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp baking soda; 0.75 tsp salt; 10 oz semisweet chocolate²; 1 each flaky sea salt for sprinkling )

Sam Merritt · sugarspunrun.com · 2023 · Original Recipe

Take your chocolate chip cookies to the next level with browned butter. These brown butter chocolate chip cookies are thick, chewy, loaded with semisweet chocolate and infused with the rich, nutty fla

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Ingredients

unsalted butter(cut into Tablespoon-sized pieces)1 cup (227g)

light(see note )1 cup (140g)

white sugar0.667 cup (93g)

eggs(room temperature)2 each (100g)

vanilla extract1.5 tsp (6g)

all-purpose flour2.75 cup (344g)

cornstarch1 tsp (3g)

baking powder1 tsp (5g)

baking soda1 tsp (6g)

salt0.75 tsp (2g)

semisweet chocolate²(see note)10 oz (284g)

flaky sea salt for sprinkling )(<- (click the link for the Maldon salt I use)1 each (6g)

Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing: brown butter
Butter: browned
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 12-14 min
Chill: 30 min
Yield: ~20 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.9. 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:Fat1.51 (53th percentile)

Flour:Sugar3.68 (98th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.29 (63th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.83 (45th percentile)

Fat %18.7 (78th percentile)

Sugar %7.68 (3th percentile)

Hydration0.29 (55th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.51

Flour:Sugar

3.68

Brown:White Sugar

Egg:Flour

0.29

Chocolate:Flour

0.83

Fat %

18.7

Sugar %

7.68

Flour %

28.3

Hydration