Secret Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Secret Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 48 cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter; 1 cup packed dark brown sugar; 0.5 cup sugar; 2 each eggs; 1.5 tsp vanilla extract; 2.5 cup all-purpose flour; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp baking soda; 0.5 tsp baking powder; 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips; 1 each sea salt

Taste of Home Editorial Team · tasteofhome.com · 2024 · Original Recipe

Infused with richly flavored browned butter, these chocolate chip cookies are chewy and soft just the way they should be. I think they’re the very best cookies you’ll ever eat. You can even make them

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richness

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complexity

balancedclassic

Ingredients

unsalted butter(cubed)1 cup (227g)

packed dark brown sugar1 cup (140g)

sugar0.5 cup (70g)

eggs(room temperature)2 each (100g)

vanilla extract1.5 tsp (6g)

all-purpose flour2.5 cup (313g)

salt1 tsp (3g)

baking soda1 tsp (6g)

baking powder0.5 tsp (2g)

semisweet chocolate chips1 cup (170g)

sea salt(optional)1 each (6g)

Total dough weight1.0kg

Process

Mixing: brown butter
Butter: browned
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 10-12 min
Chill: None
Yield: ~48 cookies
Sheet Prep: greased

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.8. 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:Fat1.38 (39th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.49 (71th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar2.00 (87th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.32 (71th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.54 (21th percentile)

Fat %21.8 (93th percentile)

Sugar %20.1 (48th percentile)

Hydration0.32 (63th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.38

Flour:Sugar

1.49

Brown:White Sugar

2.00

Egg:Flour

0.32

Chocolate:Flour

0.54

Fat %

21.8

Sugar %

20.1

Flour %

30.0

Hydration