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Just 4 Chocolate Chip Cookies

David Turner · kingarthurbaking.com · Original Recipe

Here’s the situation: You want chocolate chip cookies and you want them now. There’s no occasion, there’s no company, and there's no room in your freezer for bags of dough. And here’s the solution: sm

3

chewiness

2

crispiness

1

cakeyness

3

thickness

3

spread

2

richness

2

sweetness

3

complexity

balancedclassic

Ingredients

brown sugar(54g, packed)0.25 cup (35g)
unsalted butter(43g, at room temperature)3 tbsp (43g)
egg yolk(at room temperature)1 each (18g)
king arthur pure vanilla extract0.25 tsp (1g)
table salt0.25 tsp (1g)
baking soda(pinch)0.062 tsp (0g)
all-purpose flour(60g)0.5 cup (63g)
chocolate chips(57g)0.333 cup (57g)
Total dough weight217g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
browned
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
14-16 min
Chill
None
Yield
~4 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

How this recipe's ratios compare to the dataset. Gray = population median.

Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.8. 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:Fat1.47 (47th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.79 (81th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar999 (93th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.29 (61th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.91 (55th percentile)
Fat %19.6 (81th percentile)
Sugar %16.1 (28th percentile)
Hydration0.29 (53th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.47

Flour:Sugar

1.79

Brown:White Sugar

999

Egg:Flour

0.29

Chocolate:Flour

0.91

Fat %

19.6

Sugar %

16.1

Flour %

28.8

Hydration

0.29