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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

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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