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South African Chocolate Pepper Cookies
null · food52.com · Original Recipe
Text and recipe from Where Flavor Was Born by Andreas Viestad (Chronicle, 2007). "I grew addicted to chocolate pepper cookies when I was staying in Cape Town while writing this book. The addition of a
4
chewiness
2
crispiness
3
cakeyness
4
thickness
2
spread
3
richness
2
sweetness
3
complexity
chewythickvery chocolatey
Ingredients
bittersweet chocolate(chopped and divided)1 lb (454g)
butter(at room temperature)12 tbsp (170g)
brown sugar0.667 cup (93g)
eggs2 each (100g)
all-purpose flour2 cup (250g)
baking soda0.667 tsp (4g)
freshly ground black pepper1 tbsp (9g)
Total dough weight1.1kg
Process
- Mixing
- creaming
- Butter
- melted
- Eggs
- whole
- Bake Temp
- 350°F (177°C)
- Bake Time
- 10-12 min
- Chill
- 30 min
- Yield
- ~40 cookies
- Sheet Prep
- parchment
Recipe Radar
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Outlier Profile
Uniqueness score: 3.6. 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:Fat1.47 (47th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.68 (94th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar999 (93th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.40 (89th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.82 (94th percentile)
Fat %15.8 (47th percentile)
Sugar %8.63 (3th percentile)
Hydration0.40 (83th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)
Key Ratios
Flour:Fat
1.47
Flour:Sugar
2.68
Brown:White Sugar
999
Egg:Flour
0.40
Chocolate:Flour
1.82
Fat %
15.8
Sugar %
8.63
Flour %
23.1
Hydration
0.40