Chocolate Chip Cookie Lab612 recipes
← All Recipes

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake Recipe

Erin Clarke / Well Plated · wellplated.com · 2023 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

4/5 chewy and 3/5 crisp, with less sugar than 90% of recipes and more brown sugar against white than 83%.

See how all 612 cookie recipes compare →

This chocolate chip cookie cake is soft, chewy, and baked in one pan. It’s the easiest way to turn cookies into a crowd-pleasing dessert!

Author sayschewydescriptionsoftdescription
4

Chewiness

3

Crispiness

2

Cakeyness

5

Thickness

2

Spread

4

Richness

1

Sweetness

5

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

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +1.3brown sugar (65% of sugar)
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.11)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 21 min)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.38)

Crispiness

3/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 1.11)
  • -0.8big cookies (96 g)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 21 min)
  • +0.7white sugar (35% of sugar)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • -0.1high hydration (0.38)

Cakeyness

2/5 · +0.5 pts
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (65%)
  • +0.3big cookies (96 g)
  • +0.1white sugar (35% of sugar)

Thickness

5/5 · +1.5 pts
  • +1.596 g per cookie

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

chewysoft

Ingredients

all-purpose flour125g
whole wheat flour128g
baking soda5g
freshly grated nutmeg1g
unsalted butter142g
packed light brown sugar93g
granulated sugar50g
kosher salt3g
egg50g
whole milk15g
pure vanilla extract8g
semisweet chocolate chips213g
powdered sugar180g
unsweetened cocoa powder22g
unsalted butter85g
whole milk31g
instant espresso powder1g
pure vanilla extract4g
kosher salt1g
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
mixed
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
20-22 min
Chill
None
Yield
~12 cookies

Recipe Radar

How this recipe's ratios compare to the dataset. Amber = this recipe, dashed gray = dataset median.

Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7, 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:Fat1.11 (19th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.77 (83th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.87 (84th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (34th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.93 (56th percentile)
Fat %19.7 (79th percentile)
Sugar %12.4 (10th percentile)
Hydration0.38 (79th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.11

Flour:Sugar

1.77

Brown:White Sugar

1.87

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

0.93

Fat %

19.7

Sugar %

12.4

Flour %

21.9

Hydration

0.38

Keep exploring

Recipes most like this one

Nearest neighbours by the numbers, not by name.

Do something with it

Or browse all 612 cookie recipes.