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Soft Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Nagi · recipetineats.com · Original Recipe

RECIPE VIDEO ABOVE. These may well be the easiest chocolate chip cookies in the world! These are big, soft, buttery and are made without a beater, no creaming butter, no refrigeration required and no

2

chewiness

2

crispiness

1

cakeyness

3

thickness

3

spread

3

richness

2

sweetness

2

complexity

balancedclassic

Ingredients

plain / all purpose flour1.75 cup (245g)
salt1 tsp (3g)
baking soda(bi carb soda)0.5 tsp (3g)
unsalted butter )(, cut into 2 cm/ 4/5" cubes (1.5 US sticks / 6 oz)175 g (175g)
brown sugar (note 1))(, packed (light or dark)0.5 cup (70g)
caster sugar(US: granulated sugar)0.5 cup (70g)
egg1 each (50g)
egg yolk1 each (18g)
vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)
chocolate chips )(, separated (US: semi sweet chocolate chips or chunks)1.25 cup (213g)
Total dough weight855g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
melted
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
22-24 min
Chill
None
Yield
~13 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.2. 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:Fat1.40 (44th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.75 (79th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar1.00 (50th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.28 (58th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.87 (51th percentile)
Fat %20.5 (85th percentile)
Sugar %16.4 (30th percentile)
Hydration0.28 (50th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.40

Flour:Sugar

1.75

Brown:White Sugar

1.00

Egg:Flour

0.28

Chocolate:Flour

0.87

Fat %

20.5

Sugar %

16.4

Flour %

28.7

Hydration

0.28