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Applesauce Chocolate Chip Cookies

Becky Hardin · thecookierookie.com · 2018 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

1/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with less fat than 90% of recipes and less egg than 78%.

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APPLESAUCE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES are the perfect skinny(er) way to enjoy holiday baking! These soft chocolate chip cookies are loaded with chocolate and made with applesauce instead of eggs! These ap

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1

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

4

Thickness

1

Spread

1

Richness

2

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

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Chewiness

1/5 · -0.9 pts
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.12)
  • -0.3low hydration (0.00)
  • -0.3long bake (375°F, 31 min)
  • +0.2baking soda

Crispiness

5/5 · +2.9 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (375°F, 31 min)
  • -0.5lean dough (flour:fat 2.12)
  • +0.4low hydration (0.00)
  • +0.3baking soda

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.12)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

4/5 · +1.0 pts
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 2.12)
  • +0.4375°F oven

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

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Ingredients

unsalted butter )114g
granulated sugar200g
cinnamon applesauce250g
baking soda6g
kosher salt2g
pure vanilla extract4g
all-purpose flour240g
milk chocolate chips170g
semisweet chocolate chips85g
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
none
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
30-32 min
Chill
None
Yield
~24 cookies

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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:Fat2.12 (82th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.20 (47th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.06 (66th percentile)
Fat %10.6 (9th percentile)
Sugar %18.7 (39th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

2.12

Flour:Sugar

1.20

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0

Chocolate:Flour

1.06

Fat %

10.6

Sugar %

18.7

Flour %

22.4

Hydration

0

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