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Chocolate Drop Cookies

Chocolate Drop Cookies are sweet biscuits made with chocolate, butter or shortening, brown sugar, soda, egg, flour, and sweet milk.

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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Chocolate Drop Cookies

Ovenmoderate oven (350-375°F)

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Melt chocolate and add to melted shortening.

  2. Add sugar, egg, milk, and soda, and sift flour together.

  3. Batter should be stiff enough to drop from the spoon.

Bake and finish

  1. Drop by spoonfuls on greased pans.

  2. Bake in a moderate oven (350-375°F).

  3. Frost, if desired.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

988Calories
29 gProtein
35 gFat
137 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Chocolate
Provides the chocolate flavour and dark colour of the cookie.
Butter or shortening
Adds fat for tenderness and a rich mouthfeel in the cookie.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and moisture, and its molasses gives a deeper flavour and softer texture.
Soda
Reacts with the batter's acidity to help the cookies rise and spread.
Egg
Binds the ingredients and helps set the structure as the cookies bake.
Flour
Provides the structure that holds the cookies together as they bake.

The step that matters

Get the batter stiff enough to drop. A batter that is too thin spreads into flat, thin cookies on the pan. Stiff batter holds its shape, so each spoonful bakes into a domed cookie.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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