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Chocolate Chip Mandelbrot for an Exercise in Mandelbrot Fractal Generation Recipe
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Ingredients
- Tangy Chocolate Chip Mandelbrot
- Closely adapted from Gale Gandâs butter flour sugar eggs
- 8 T (1 stick, 1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 T vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1 T vanilla
- 5 1/4 cups (687 g) AP flour
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 2 t baking powder
- 1/2 t salt
- 2 1/2 cups miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup cacao nibs
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