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Crystallized Gingerbread Chocolate Chip Cookies

Taste of Home Editorial Team · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more sugar than 96% of recipes and less chocolate than 77%.

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This recipe is the best of twp worlds, gingerbread and chocolate chip cookies. Since they're combined, you don't have to choose between them., Colleen Delawder, Herndon, Virginia

3

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

5

Spread

4

Richness

5

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

3/5 · +1.2 pts
  • +0.8molasses
  • +0.7brown sugar (34% of sugar)
  • -0.4small cookies (18 g)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.20)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.4 pts
  • +1.3white sugar (66% of sugar)
  • +0.6small cookies (18 g)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.20)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.8 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.2white sugar (66% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -1.7 pts
  • -1.718 g per cookie

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

molassesbig yield

Ingredients

unsalted butter341g
packed brown sugar140g
sugar70g
eggs100g
molasses170g
vanilla extract13g
all-purpose flour500g
baking soda24g
ground ginger6g
ground cinnamon6g
salt2g
pepper2g
miniature semisweet chocolate chips284g
finely chopped crystallized ginger47g
additional sugar200g
Total dough weight1.9kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~108 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:Fat1.47 (48th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.86 (16th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.52 (42th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (36th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.57 (22th percentile)
Fat %17.9 (65th percentile)
Sugar %30.5 (97th percentile)
Hydration0.20 (29th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.47

Flour:Sugar

0.86

Brown:White Sugar

0.52

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

0.57

Fat %

17.9

Sugar %

30.5

Flour %

26.3

Hydration

0.20

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