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The Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe by Tasty

Alvin Zhou · tasty.co · 2017 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more sugar than 88% of recipes.

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There are a few crucial steps to baking the chewiest, tastiest chocolate chip cookies. First, skip using chips and opt for chunks. Second, instead of using just one type of chocolate (like semisweet),

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5

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

5

Spread

2

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 · +2.6 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (51% of sugar)
  • +1.0melted butter
  • +0.7high hydration (1.04)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (49% of sugar)
  • -0.9high hydration (1.04)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.4melted butter
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.7 pts
  • -0.8melted butter
  • +0.1white sugar (49% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · +0.2 pts
  • +0.763 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

granulated sugar100g
brown sugar105g
salt3g
unsalted butter114g
egg50g
vanilla extract4g
all-purpose flour156g
baking soda3g
milk113g
dark chocolate chunk113g
Total dough weight761g

Process

Mixing
melted butter
Butter
melted
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
30 min
Yield
~12 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.2, 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 (37th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.76 (9th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.05 (67th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.32 (70th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.72 (37th percentile)
Fat %14.9 (35th percentile)
Sugar %26.9 (89th percentile)
Hydration1.04 (98th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.38

Flour:Sugar

0.76

Brown:White Sugar

1.05

Egg:Flour

0.32

Chocolate:Flour

0.72

Fat %

14.9

Sugar %

26.9

Flour %

20.5

Hydration

1.04

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