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Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

null · food52.com · Original Recipe

As much as I like crisp, rich chip cookies packed with dark chopped chocolate and sprinkled with sea salt, I am convinced there is still a need for a basic, soft chocolate chip cookie that doesn’t req

2

chewiness

2

crispiness

2

cakeyness

4

thickness

2

spread

2

richness

2

sweetness

2

complexity

thick

Ingredients

all-purpose flour(355 grams)2.5 cup (313g)
baking soda1 tsp (6g)
salt0.75 tsp (2g)
unsalted butter(1 1/2 sticks or 170 grams, at room temperature)12 tbsp (170g)
granulated sugar(150 grams)0.75 cup (150g)
brown sugar(150 grams)0.75 cup (105g)
eggs2 each (100g)
pure vanilla extract1.5 tsp (6g)
semisweet(198 grams)7 oz (198g)
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
browned
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~20 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.8. 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:Fat1.83 (71th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.23 (43th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0.70 (36th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.32 (70th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %16.2 (51th percentile)
Sugar %24.3 (82th percentile)
Hydration0.32 (63th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.83

Flour:Sugar

1.23

Brown:White Sugar

0.70

Egg:Flour

0.32

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

16.2

Sugar %

24.3

Flour %

29.8

Hydration

0.32