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Brown Butter Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe by Tasty

Brandon Gouveia · tasty.co · 2024 · Original Recipe

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5/5 chewy and 3/5 crisp, with more fat than 85% of recipes.

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These Brown Butter Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies are a delicious blend of nutty brown butter, warming spices, and chocolate. The cookies are soft, thick, and packed with rich flavor. Perfect for

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5

Chewiness

3

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

5

Spread

5

Richness

4

Sweetness

5

Flavor add-ins

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Chewiness

5/5 · +2.4 pts
  • +1.2brown sugar (58% of sugar)
  • +1.0browned butter
  • +0.3cornstarch
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • -0.3powder and soda
  • -0.1low hydration (0.20)

Crispiness

3/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +0.8white sugar (42% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.10)
  • -0.5cornstarch
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.1low hydration (0.20)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.1 pts
  • -0.8browned butter
  • +0.6powder and soda
  • +0.1white sugar (42% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +0.6 pts
  • -0.5browned butter
  • +0.4cornstarch
  • +0.454 g per cookie
  • +0.3baking powder

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

softthickbrown buttercornstarch

Ingredients

unsalted butter227g
sweet potato30g
all-purpose flour250g
baking soda6g
baking powder2g
cornstarch3g
kosher salt2g
ground cinnamon6g
ground nutmeg1g
ground cloves1g
granulated sugar100g
packed brown sugar140g
egg50g
vanilla extract8g
semisweet chocolate chips170g
chopped dark chocolate70g
flaky sea salt6g
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
12-14 min
Chill
30 min
Yield
~20 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.2, 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:Fat1.10 (16th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.04 (31th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.40 (76th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (36th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.96 (58th percentile)
Fat %21.2 (86th percentile)
Sugar %22.4 (65th percentile)
Hydration0.20 (29th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.10

Flour:Sugar

1.04

Brown:White Sugar

1.40

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

0.96

Fat %

21.2

Sugar %

22.4

Flour %

23.3

Hydration

0.20

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