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Sugar Cookies (Scandinavian)

evelynathens · food.com · 2006 · Original Recipe

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1/5 chewy and 5/5 crisp, with more fat than 94% of recipes and less chocolate than 91%.

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Cardamom is a much-loved spice used in Scandinavian baking. These cookies make good use of it. Bake up a batch now to enjoy with your favourite ice cream or alone, with a glass of milk.

1

Chewiness

5

Crispiness

4

Cakeyness

1

Thickness

5

Spread

5

Richness

5

Sweetness

5

Flavor add-ins

Scores are 1 to 5 across all 612 recipes. Chewiness, crispiness, cakeyness and thickness are computed from the recipe using a published-science rubric; spread, richness, sweetness and flavor add-ins are percentile ranks of the ingredient numbers. See how it works.

Why it scores this way

Every rubric factor that applies to this recipe, with the points it adds or removes. Hover a factor for the mechanism behind it. The displayed thickness score comes from a fitted model that agrees slightly better with authors' words; these are the rubric's reasons.

Chewiness

1/5 · -0.9 pts
  • -0.4small cookies (19 g)
  • -0.3long bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • -0.2low hydration (0.13)

Crispiness

5/5 · +3.5 pts
  • +2.0white sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +0.7long or low bake (350°F, 16 min)
  • +0.6small cookies (19 g)
  • +0.2low hydration (0.13)

Cakeyness

4/5 · +1.7 pts
  • +0.8flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)
  • +0.6creamed butter
  • +0.3white sugar (100% of sugar)

Thickness

1/5 · -0.3 pts
  • -1.619 g per cookie
  • +0.790 min chill
  • +0.6flour-heavy (flour:fat 1.65)

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big yield

Ingredients

softened butter227g
sugar105g
egg50g
salt1g
vanilla extract2g
almond extract2g
ground cardamom3g
all-purpose flour375g
sugar150g
Total dough weight914g

Process

Mixing
creaming
Butter
room temp
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
15-17 min
Chill
90 min
Yield
~48 cookies
Sheet Prep
ungreased

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.8, a single number for how far this recipe sits from the typical recipe across all ratios. Each bar is a z-score: how many standard deviations that ratio sits above or below the dataset mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 612 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.65 (66th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.47 (70th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.13 (26th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %24.8 (95th percentile)
Sugar %27.9 (91th percentile)
Hydration0.13 (20th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.65

Flour:Sugar

1.47

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.13

Chocolate:Flour

0

Fat %

24.8

Sugar %

27.9

Flour %

41.0

Hydration

0.13

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