OK, that title is slightly misleading I guess. This recipe from Meg over at Megnut.com is actually for a Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie. She asked for chocolate chip cookie receipes from her readers and then took the average of all the recipes and created her own recipe. The measurements are rather...exact?
After the jump, the recipe Meg came up with.
A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie
2.04 cups all-purpose flour
0.79 tsp. salt
0.79 tsp. baking soda
0.805 stick unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
0.2737 stick unsalted butter, cold
0.5313 stick unsalted butter, melted
(1 US stick = 8 tablespoons = 1/4 lb.)
0.84 cups light brown sugar
0.10 cups dark brown sugar
0.54 cups white sugar
1.33 eggs
0.33 egg yolk
1.46 tsp. vanilla extract
0.17 tbsp. water
0.25 tbsp. milk
1.53 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Pre-heat oven to 354.17°F, or as close as you can get.
Sift flour, salt, and baking soda together in medium bowl. Set aside. Using a hand or stand mixer, cream butter and sugars until incorporated and smooth. Add vanilla, water, milk and eggs. Mix until all ingredients are combined. Add flour, salt, and baking soda and blend until fully incorporated. Stir in chocolate chips. Cover and chill dough in the refrigerator for 25 minutes. Place parchment paper on one-third of cookie sheet, drop dough by rounded tablespoons onto sheet. Some cookies will be on parchment, others off. Cook for 13.04 minutes.
5-17-2007 @2:47PM wintem01 said... What a waste of time. Why would I care about trying to duplicate a recipe with 1/3 of an egg yolk or 1/10 of a cup of brown sugar. Too much free time Meg?
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5-17-2007 @12:29PM R Watterworth said... Strange that the measurements are exact, but "soften to room tempature" is vague.
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5-17-2007 @12:54PM Beta Xtal said... For those watching their waistline I feel that '1.53 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips' is excessive...1.51 cups would suffice ;-)
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5-17-2007 @4:37PM graft said... don't forget to bake at 322.77 feet above sea level in an oven at latitude 29.84 degrees north 89.12 degrees west at 10:52 am on the morning of the summer solstice
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5-17-2007 @1:23PM traci said... If you understand the concept of this recipe, it would mean that EVERY recipe said to sofen the butter to room temperature.
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5-17-2007 @2:17PM jeff elrod said... has anyone actually tried this?
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5-17-2007 @3:31PM ar said... "If you understand the concept of this recipe, it would mean that EVERY recipe said to sofen the butter to room temperature."
No, because there are "cold" and "melted" sticks as well.
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5-17-2007 @4:44PM tom Beckman said... I like accuracy but how can the formula be accurate as a volume recipe? To be anywhere near accurate it needs to be converted to weight measurement.
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5-17-2007 @8:12PM M-L said... yeah mighta been more interesting as a Median Choc Chip Cookie instead of Mean. What's the displacement?
pfft.
pointless.
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5-22-2007 @5:45PM b said... hahahaha nice one gaft
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5-19-2007 @9:49AM Stephen said... M-L,
You made me laugh harder than I have all day. Thanks!
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6-02-2007 @1:35PM Great American Cookie said... The recipe for the anal baker. Talk about taking easy out of baking. These measurements will leave the beginning baker frustrated, the intermediate baker overwhelmed and the advanced baker, well we'll just forget that comment.
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