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Secret Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies

Taste of Home Editorial Team · tasteofhome.com · Original Recipe

Infused with richly flavored browned butter, these chocolate chip cookies are chewy and soft just the way they should be. I think they’re the very best cookies you’ll ever eat. You can even make them

3

chewiness

3

crispiness

1

cakeyness

3

thickness

2

spread

3

richness

2

sweetness

3

complexity

balancedclassic

Ingredients

unsalted butter(cubed)1 cup (227g)
packed dark brown sugar1 cup (140g)
sugar0.5 cup (70g)
eggs(room temperature)2 each (100g)
vanilla extract1.5 tsp (6g)
all-purpose flour2.5 cup (313g)
salt1 tsp (3g)
baking soda1 tsp (6g)
baking powder0.5 tsp (2g)
semisweet chocolate chips1 cup (170g)
sea salt(optional)1 each (6g)
Total dough weight1.0kg

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
melted
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
10-12 min
Chill
None
Yield
~4 cookies
Sheet Prep
parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.4. 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:Fat1.38 (38th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.49 (66th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.00 (75th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.32 (70th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0.54 (25th percentile)
Fat %21.8 (92th percentile)
Sugar %20.1 (54th percentile)
Hydration0.32 (63th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.38

Flour:Sugar

1.49

Brown:White Sugar

2.00

Egg:Flour

0.32

Chocolate:Flour

0.54

Fat %

21.8

Sugar %

20.1

Flour %

30.0

Hydration

0.32