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The Best Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies You'll Ever Eat

Monique Volz of AmbitiousKitchen.com · ambitiouskitchen.com · Original Recipe

World famous brown butter chocolate chip cookies made with dark brown sugar, two types of chocolate chips and a sprinkle of sea salt. These epic cookies are perfectly crispy on the outside, chewy in t

4

chewiness

3

crispiness

2

cakeyness

2

thickness

2

spread

2

richness

2

sweetness

2

complexity

chewy

Ingredients

wet ingredients:1 each (30g)
salted butter(226 grams, sliced)1 cup (227g)
packed dark brown sugar(320 grams)1.5 cup (210g)
granulated sugar(50 grams)0.25 cup (50g)
egg plus 1 large egg yolk(at room temperature)1 each (50g)
vanilla extract1 tbsp (13g)
plain whole-milk greek yogurt1 tbsp (15g)
dry ingredients:1 each (30g)
all-purpose flour(270 grams)2.25 cup (281g)
baking soda1 tsp (6g)
kosher salt0.5 tsp (2g)
semisweet chocolate chips(135 grams)0.75 cup (128g)
milk(135 grams)0.75 cup (183g)
flaky sea salt(I like Maldon)1 each (6g)
Total dough weight1.2kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
melted
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
720 min
Yield
~24 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.0. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 669 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.24 (28th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.08 (28th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar4.20 (85th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.18 (29th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.45 (19th percentile)
Fat %18.5 (73th percentile)
Sugar %21.1 (62th percentile)
Hydration0.88 (98th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.24

Flour:Sugar

1.08

Brown:White Sugar

4.20

Egg:Flour

0.18

Chocolate:Flour

0.45

Fat %

18.5

Sugar %

21.1

Flour %

22.9

Hydration

0.88