Classic Sugar Cookie
12tomatoes.com · Serves 24
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More leavening than 90% of recipes and no salt, unlike 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 90% of recipes: 2.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about twice as much.
- No salt at all, where 80% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.1% of the flour weight).
- More fat than 78% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 1/2 cups flour≈ 313 g
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda≈ 4.5 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1 cup salted butter, softened≈ 227 g
- 1 1/4 cup sugar≈ 250 g
- 3 egg yolks≈ 54 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- Assorted sprinkles (optional)n/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar, for rolling≈ 50 g
flour 313 gbatter 857 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 513 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Fat73% · 81st percentile · median 61%
- Sugar80% · 71st percentile · median 64%
- Egg17% · 47th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening2.9% · 92nd percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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