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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