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Secret Cookies
null · food52.com · Original Recipe
This recipe has truly been kept a "Secret" for 30 years but now is the time to release it. It was given to me by an elderly lady who had been given it by an even more elderly Swedish lady. The proviso
2
chewiness
2
crispiness
2
cakeyness
3
thickness
3
spread
3
richness
3
sweetness
2
complexity
balancedclassic
Ingredients
salted butter(1 1/2 cups, 3 sticks, or 340g, softened)0.75 lb (340g)
granulated sugar(350g)1.75 cup (350g)
egg yolks2 each (36g)
vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)
flour(450g)3.5 cup (490g)
red(green or multi-colored sugar)1 each (30g)
Total dough weight1.3kg
Process
- Mixing
- creaming
- Butter
- room temp
- Eggs
- whole
- Bake Temp
- 350°F (177°C)
- Bake Time
- 10-12 min
- Chill
- None
- Yield
- ~80 cookies
- Sheet Prep
- parchment
Recipe Radar
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Outlier Profile
Uniqueness score: 3.1. 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:Fat1.44 (46th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.40 (60th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (12th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.07 (23th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %27.1 (99th percentile)
Sugar %27.9 (92th percentile)
Hydration0.07 (17th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)
Key Ratios
Flour:Fat
1.44
Flour:Sugar
1.40
Brown:White Sugar
0
Egg:Flour
0.07
Chocolate:Flour
0
Fat %
27.1
Sugar %
27.9
Flour %
39.1
Hydration
0.07