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Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

Lauren Allen · tastesbetterfromscratch.com · 2020 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more sugar than 92% of recipes and more brown sugar against white than 84%.

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Soft and chewy chocolate chip skillet cookie, served warm, topped with ice cream. Complete cookie HEAVEN!

Author sayschewydescriptionsoftdescription
5

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

2

Thickness

5

Spread

3

Richness

5

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

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +1.3brown sugar (67% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 26 min)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.27)

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.1 pts
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 26 min)
  • +0.7white sugar (33% of sugar)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.27)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -1.2 pts
  • -0.8melted butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (67%)
  • +0.1white sugar (33% of sugar)

Thickness

2/5 · +0.4 pts
  • +0.971 g per cookie
  • -0.5melted butter

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

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Ingredients

butter )170g
light brown sugar200g
granulated sugar100g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
vanilla extract8g
all-purpose flour255g
baking soda3g
salt3g
semi-sweet chocolate chips255g
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
25-27 min
Chill
None
Yield
~15 cookies

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7, 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:Fat1.50 (51th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.85 (15th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.00 (86th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.27 (54th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.00 (62th percentile)
Fat %16.0 (43th percentile)
Sugar %28.2 (93th percentile)
Hydration0.27 (46th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.50

Flour:Sugar

0.85

Brown:White Sugar

2.00

Egg:Flour

0.27

Chocolate:Flour

1.00

Fat %

16.0

Sugar %

28.2

Flour %

24.0

Hydration

0.27

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