Lemon Sugar Cookies
Bake to the roots · baketotheroots.de · 2017 · 20
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Less fat than 98% of recipes and more leavening than 96%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 98% of recipes: 29% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%, about half as much.
- More leavening than 96% of recipes: 3.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 3 times as much.
- Less sugar than 85% of recipes: 48% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
Ingredients (14)
- 1/2 cup (120g) butter, at room temperature120 g
- 1 cup (200g) sugar200 g
- 2 medium eggs≈ 88 g
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract*≈ 4.2 g
- 1 tsp. Amaretto*≈ 4.9 g
- 1 tbsp. lemon juice≈ 15 g
- 3 1/4 cups (420g) all-purpose flour420 g
- 3 1/2 tsp. baking powder≈ 16 g
- 1/2 tsp. salt≈ 3 g
- 1 tbsp. lemon zest≈ 6 g
- 1/3 cup (80ml) milk≈ 81 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 1/2 cups (200g) confectioners‘ sugar200 g
- 3 tbsp. lemon juice≈ 44 g
- 1-3 tbsp. heavy creamsome lemon zest≈ 12 g
flour 420 gbatter 958 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.
- Fat29% · 2nd percentile · median 61%
- Sugar48% · 14th percentile · median 64%
- Egg21% · 70th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening3.8% · 97th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0.7% · 51st percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 12 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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