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Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
PJ Hamel · kingarthurbaking.com · Original Recipe
Soft and moist without being doughy, these are the quintessential soft chocolate chip cookies. They're packed with chocolate chips AND — they're 100% whole grain! Who could ask for anything more?As a
3
chewiness
2
crispiness
2
cakeyness
3
thickness
2
spread
2
richness
2
sweetness
3
complexity
very chocolatey
Ingredients
unsalted butter(85g)6 tbsp (85g)
light brown sugar(213g, packed)1 cup (140g)
king arthur pure vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)
table salt0.75 tsp (2g)
baking soda0.5 tsp (3g)
baking powder0.5 tsp (2g)
egg1 each (50g)
king arthur golden wheat flour(227g)2 cup (280g)
semisweet chocolate chips(340g, chopped)2 cup (340g)
Total dough weight911g
Process
- Mixing
- creaming
- Butter
- browned
- Eggs
- whole
- Bake Temp
- 350°F (177°C)
- Bake Time
- 12-14 min
- Chill
- None
- Yield
- ~24 cookies
- Sheet Prep
- parchment
Recipe Radar
How this recipe's ratios compare to the dataset. Gray = population median.
Outlier Profile
Uniqueness score: 3.3. 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:Fat3.29 (94th percentile)
Flour:Sugar2.00 (85th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar999 (93th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.18 (31th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.21 (80th percentile)
Fat %9.35 (12th percentile)
Sugar %15.4 (24th percentile)
Hydration0.18 (24th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)
Key Ratios
Flour:Fat
3.29
Flour:Sugar
2.00
Brown:White Sugar
999
Egg:Flour
0.18
Chocolate:Flour
1.21
Fat %
9.35
Sugar %
15.4
Flour %
30.7
Hydration
0.18