Mexican Chocolate Sugar Crisps
Taste of Home Editorial Team · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · Original Recipe
Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes
4/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more sugar than 91% of recipes.
My grandma loved these so much, she would hide them from my grandpa! I think of her every time I make a batch. Like Mexican spice? Try stirring in a little chili powder., Michele Lovio, Thousand Oaks,
Chewiness
Crispiness
Cakeyness
Thickness
Spread
Richness
Sweetness
Flavor add-ins
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Why it scores this way
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Chewiness
4/5 · +1.9 pts- +1.0melted butter
- +0.8corn syrup
- +0.2baking soda
- -0.1low hydration (0.23)
Crispiness
4/5 · +2.3 pts- +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
- -0.5corn syrup
- +0.4melted butter
- +0.3baking soda
- +0.1low hydration (0.23)
Cakeyness
1/5 · -0.1 pts- -0.8melted butter
- +0.4shortening
- +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)
Thickness
2/5 · -0.8 pts- -0.5melted butter
- -0.338 g per cookie
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Ingredients
Process
- Mixing
- melted butter
- Butter
- melted
- Eggs
- whole
- Bake Temp
- 350°F (177°C)
- Bake Time
- 10-12 min
- Chill
- None
- Yield
- ~24 cookies
- Sheet Prep
- ungreased
Recipe Radar
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Outlier Profile
Uniqueness score: 1.6, 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.
Key Ratios
Flour:Fat
1.42
Flour:Sugar
0.85
Brown:White Sugar
0
Egg:Flour
0.23
Chocolate:Flour
1.04
Fat %
16.8
Sugar %
28.0
Flour %
23.8
Hydration
0.23
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