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Zucchini Cookies

Christine Fiorentino · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · Original Recipe

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1/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with less chocolate than 90% of recipes.

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A little crunch, a little chocolate, a little spice, these chocolate zucchini cookies have a whole lotta flavor.

Author sayscrispydescription
1

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

1

Spread

2

Richness

2

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

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Chewiness

1/5 · -0.8 pts
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.20)
  • -0.4small cookies (17 g)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.20)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.6small cookies (17 g)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.20)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.20)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.20)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.8 pts
  • -1.817 g per cookie
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.20)
  • +0.4375°F oven

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

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Ingredients

finely shredded zucchini280g
butter227g
sugar280g
eggs100g
all-purpose flour500g
baking soda12g
ground cinnamon6g
salt3g
ground nutmeg3g
ground cloves3g
chopped nuts140g
semisweet chocolate chips85g
Total dough weight1.6kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~96 cookies
Sheet Prep
ungreased

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.2, 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:Fat2.20 (85th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.79 (84th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (36th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.17 (9th percentile)
Fat %13.8 (25th percentile)
Sugar %17.1 (30th percentile)
Hydration0.20 (29th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.20

Flour:Sugar

1.79

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

0.17

Fat %

13.8

Sugar %

17.1

Flour %

30.5

Hydration

0.20

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