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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Kate Davis · bonappetit.com · Original Recipe

Prepare for this chocolate-chip brown-butter cookie recipe to ruin you for all others. A combination of toffee candy and bittersweet chocolate set them apart.

4

chewiness

2

crispiness

2

cakeyness

2

thickness

3

spread

2

richness

2

sweetness

3

complexity

chewyvery chocolatey

Ingredients

unsalted butter(2 sticks; 227 g)1 cup (227g)
all-purpose flour(250 g)2 cup (250g)
baking soda1 tsp (6g)
diamond crystal0.75 tsp (2g)
dark brown sugar(packed; 215 g)1 cup (140g)
granulated sugar(73 g)0.333 cup (67g)
eggs(room temperature)2 each (100g)
vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)
chocolate toffee bars(80 g total, chopped into ¼" pieces)2 each (340g)
chocolate wafers (disks(216 g, pistoles, fèves; preferably 72% cacao))1.5 cup (210g)
flaky sea salt1 each (6g)
Total dough weight1.4kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
browned
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
375°F (191°C)
Bake Time
25-27 min
Chill
30 min
Yield
~20 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.7. 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:Fat1.10 (15th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.21 (42th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.10 (80th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.40 (89th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour2.20 (97th percentile)
Fat %16.7 (58th percentile)
Sugar %15.2 (23th percentile)
Hydration0.40 (83th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.10

Flour:Sugar

1.21

Brown:White Sugar

2.10

Egg:Flour

0.40

Chocolate:Flour

2.20

Fat %

16.7

Sugar %

15.2

Flour %

18.4

Hydration

0.40