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Sea Salt Dulce De Leche Thumbprint Cookies Recipe by Tasty

Joelle Park · tasty.co · 2024 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more fat than 97% of recipes and less chocolate than 91%.

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These Sea Salt Dulce De Leche Thumbprint cookies make for an impressive holiday dessert spread with minimal effort. The flaky shortbread cookie balances wonderfully with the rich dulce de leche for a

1

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

4

Spread

5

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.

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Chewiness

1/5 · +0.2 pts
  • +0.7yolks only
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • -0.2low hydration (0.12)

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.2low hydration (0.12)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.9 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

3/5 · -0.6 pts
  • -0.631 g per cookie

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

extra yolk

Ingredients

unsalted butter226g
granulated sugar133g
egg yolks36g
vanilla extract8g
kosher salt1g
all-purpose flour313g
can dulce de leche30g
coarse sea salt6g
Total dough weight753g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
yolks only
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
None
Yield
~24 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.2, 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:Fat1.38 (41th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.34 (92th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.12 (25th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %30.0 (98th percentile)
Sugar %17.7 (32th percentile)
Hydration0.12 (19th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.38

Flour:Sugar

2.34

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.12

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

30.0

Sugar %

17.7

Flour %

41.5

Hydration

0.12

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