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Wrinkly Chocolate Chip Cookies

null · food52.com · Original Recipe

Adapted from Sarah Kieffer’s game-changing, Instagram-famous cookies—found in her cookbook The Vanilla Bean Baking Book—this recipe is all about the wrinkles. Kieffer swears by the “pan-banging” techn

2

chewiness

4

crispiness

2

cakeyness

2

thickness

3

spread

4

richness

2

sweetness

2

complexity

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Ingredients

unsalted butter(2 sticks, 227 grams, at room temperature)0.5 lb (227g)
granulated sugar(200 grams)1 cup (200g)
packed light(160 grams)0.75 cup (105g)
kosher salt0.75 tsp (2g)
egg1 each (50g)
water1 tbsp (9g)
pure vanilla extract1.5 tsp (6g)
baking soda0.5 tsp (3g)
all-purpose flour(256 grams)2 cup (250g)
bittersweet chocolate(227 grams, chopped (some chunks, some shards))8 oz (227g)
flaky salt(optional, to sprinkle on top)1 each (6g)
Total dough weight1.1kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
browned
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
720 min
Yield
~10 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.3. 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:Sugar1.25 (47th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (12th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (36th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.91 (58th percentile)
Fat %20.9 (88th percentile)
Sugar %18.4 (42th percentile)
Hydration0.20 (29th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.10

Flour:Sugar

1.25

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.20

Chocolate:Flour

0.91

Fat %

20.9

Sugar %

18.4

Flour %

23.0

Hydration

0.20