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Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

Erin Clarke · wellplated.com · 2021 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

3/5 chewy and 3/5 crisp, with less fat than 87% of recipes and more egg than 86%.

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Thick and chewy chocolate chip walnut cookies. Super soft, old-fashioned taste, and made with healthy ingredients!

Author sayschewydescriptionsoftdescriptionthickdescription
3

Chewiness

3

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

2

Spread

1

Richness

2

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.

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Chewiness

3/5 · +1.3 pts
  • +1.0brown sugar (51% of sugar)
  • +0.4oats
  • -0.4small cookies (28 g)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.39)

Crispiness

3/5 · +2.0 pts
  • +1.0white sugar (49% of sugar)
  • +0.6small cookies (28 g)
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2oats
  • -0.1high hydration (0.39)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.39)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.1white sugar (49% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.8 pts
  • -0.828 g per cookie

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

chewysoftthickvery chocolatey

Ingredients

old fashioned rolled oats70g
white whole wheat flour128g
unsalted butter85g
dark brown sugar70g
granulated sugar67g
pure vanilla extract4g
espresso powder1g
ground cinnamon2g
kosher salt2g
baking soda5g
cider vinegar1g
egg50g
dark chocolate chips170g
finely chopped walnuts70g
Total dough weight724g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~26 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.4, 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:Fat1.50 (53th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.94 (22th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.05 (66th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.39 (86th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.33 (85th percentile)
Fat %11.8 (12th percentile)
Sugar %18.9 (40th percentile)
Hydration0.39 (80th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.50

Flour:Sugar

0.94

Brown:White Sugar

1.05

Egg:Flour

0.39

Chocolate:Flour

1.33

Fat %

11.8

Sugar %

18.9

Flour %

17.7

Hydration

0.39

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