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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sam Merritt · sugarspunrun.com · Original Recipe
Take your chocolate chip cookies to the next level with browned butter. These brown butter chocolate chip cookies are thick, chewy, loaded with semisweet chocolate and infused with the rich, nutty fla
2
chewiness
2
crispiness
2
cakeyness
3
thickness
2
spread
2
richness
2
sweetness
2
complexity
balancedclassic
Ingredients
unsalted butter(cut into Tablespoon-sized pieces)1 cup (227g)
light(see note )1 cup (140g)
white sugar0.667 cup (93g)
eggs(room temperature)2 each (100g)
vanilla extract1.5 tsp (6g)
all-purpose flour2.75 cup (344g)
cornstarch1 tsp (3g)
baking powder1 tsp (5g)
baking soda1 tsp (6g)
salt0.75 tsp (2g)
semisweet chocolate²(see note)10 oz (284g)
flaky sea salt for sprinkling )(<- (click the link for the Maldon salt I use)1 each (6g)
Total dough weight1.2kg
Process
- Mixing
- creaming
- Butter
- melted
- Eggs
- whole
- Bake Temp
- 350°F (177°C)
- Bake Time
- 12-14 min
- Chill
- 30 min
- Yield
- ~20 cookies
- Sheet Prep
- parchment
Recipe Radar
How this recipe's ratios compare to the dataset. Gray = population median.
Outlier Profile
Uniqueness score: 2.7. 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:Fat1.51 (53th percentile)
Flour:Sugar3.68 (98th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (12th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.29 (62th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.83 (48th percentile)
Fat %18.7 (76th percentile)
Sugar %7.68 (3th percentile)
Hydration0.29 (54th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)
Key Ratios
Flour:Fat
1.51
Flour:Sugar
3.68
Brown:White Sugar
0
Egg:Flour
0.29
Chocolate:Flour
0.83
Fat %
18.7
Sugar %
7.68
Flour %
28.3
Hydration
0.29