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Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
null · food52.com · Original Recipe
I've been making these for decades. If they look like Toll House Cookies, it’s because that recipe, the mother of so many chocolate-chippers, was my starting point. These spread more than Toll House c
3
chewiness
3
crispiness
3
cakeyness
2
thickness
3
spread
3
richness
2
sweetness
3
complexity
very chocolatey
Ingredients
all-purpose flour(272 grams)2 cup (250g)
baking soda0.75 tsp (5g)
unsalted butter(8 ounces; 226 grams, at room temperature)2 stick (226g)
sugar(200 grams)1 cup (140g)
packed brown sugar(133 grams)0.667 cup (93g)
fine sea salt1 tsp (3g)
pure vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)
eggs(at room temperature)2 each (100g)
bittersweet chocolate(340 grams)12 oz (340g)
walnuts(120 grams, preferably toasted (optional))1 cup (140g)
Total dough weight1.3kg
Process
- Mixing
- creaming
- Butter
- browned
- Eggs
- whole
- Bake Temp
- 375°F (191°C)
- Bake Time
- 10-12 min
- Chill
- 30 min
- Yield
- ~45 cookies
- Sheet Prep
- parchment
Recipe Radar
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Outlier Profile
Uniqueness score: 1.7. 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:Fat1.11 (19th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.07 (28th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.67 (30th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.40 (89th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.36 (86th percentile)
Fat %17.3 (63th percentile)
Sugar %17.9 (39th percentile)
Hydration0.40 (83th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)
Key Ratios
Flour:Fat
1.11
Flour:Sugar
1.07
Brown:White Sugar
0.67
Egg:Flour
0.40
Chocolate:Flour
1.36
Fat %
17.3
Sugar %
17.9
Flour %
19.2
Hydration
0.40