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How To Make Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe by Tasty

Scott Loitsch · tasty.co · 2018 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 4/5 crisp, with more fat than 91% of recipes and more brown sugar against white than 84%.

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5

Chewiness

4

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

5

Spread

5

Richness

3

Sweetness

4

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 · +4.2 pts
  • +1.3brown sugar (67% of sugar)
  • +1.0bread flour
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.7extra yolk
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.97)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 21 min)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

4/5 · +2.4 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.97)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 21 min)
  • +0.7white sugar (33% of sugar)
  • -0.5bread flour
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

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

Thickness

4/5 · +0.3 pts
  • -0.5melted butter
  • +0.455 g per cookie
  • +0.4bread flour

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

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Ingredients

bread flour127g
all-purpose flour94g
kosher salt6g
baking soda6g
unsalted butter227g
water18g
dark brown sugar140g
white sugar70g
vanilla extract8g
espresso powder2g
egg50g
egg yolk18g
semi-sweet chocolate chips85g
dark chocolate142g
Total dough weight994g

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
20-22 min
Chill
15 min
Yield
~18 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.6, 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:Fat0.97 (10th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.05 (32th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.00 (86th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.31 (65th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.03 (65th percentile)
Fat %22.8 (92th percentile)
Sugar %21.1 (56th percentile)
Hydration0.31 (57th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

0.97

Flour:Sugar

1.05

Brown:White Sugar

2.00

Egg:Flour

0.31

Chocolate:Flour

1.03

Fat %

22.8

Sugar %

21.1

Flour %

22.2

Hydration

0.31

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