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Chocolate Chip Cookies: The Genius Recipe by Tasty

Codii Lopez · tasty.co · 2019 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more chocolate than 97% of recipes and less egg than 78%.

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A secret ingredient takes these cookies to the next level of deliciousness. The combination of rich chocolate chips, buttery dough, and a touch of magic will leave you in awe of their incredible flavo

5

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

4

Spread

2

Richness

2

Sweetness

3

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

Every rubric factor that applies to this recipe, with the points it adds or removes. Hover a factor for the mechanism behind it. The displayed thickness score comes from a fitted model that agrees slightly better with authors' words; these are the rubric's reasons.

Chewiness

5/5 · +2.5 pts
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.8brown sugar (41% of sugar)
  • +0.8corn syrup
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 17 min)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +1.2white sugar (59% of sugar)
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.28)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 17 min)
  • -0.5corn syrup
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.6 pts
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.2white sugar (59% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · -0.3 pts
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.250 g per cookie

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

melted buttercorn syrupvery chocolatey

Ingredients

brown sugar70g
granulated sugar100g
kosher salt6g
unsalted butter170g
corn syrup41g
whole milk31g
vanilla extract25g
all-purpose flour219g
baking soda9g
chocolate chunks320g
melted chocolate170g
milk30g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
16-18 min
Chill
None
Yield
~24 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.7, 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:Fat1.28 (32th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.04 (30th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.70 (48th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour2.24 (97th percentile)
Fat %14.3 (29th percentile)
Sugar %17.7 (32th percentile)
Hydration0.28 (51th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.28

Flour:Sugar

1.04

Brown:White Sugar

0.70

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

2.24

Fat %

14.3

Sugar %

17.7

Flour %

18.4

Hydration

0.28

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