Soft Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe
bakingamoment.com · 2026 · 24 3-inch heart cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Less egg than 92% of recipes and no leavening, unlike 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 92% of recipes: 5.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%, under a third as much.
- No leavening at all, where 77% of recipes use some (most of those 1 to 2.4% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (16)
- 1 cup unsalted butter, (cold)≈ 227 g
- 4 ounces cream cheese ((half a brick))113 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
- 1 large egg yolk≈ 18 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1 teaspoon almond extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2 3/4 cup all-purpose flour≈ 344 g
- 1/4 cup cornstarch≈ 32 g
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, (softened)≈ 57 g
- 1/3 cup sour cream≈ 77 g
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar≈ 300 g
- pinch of kosher salt≈ 0.4 g
- drop of pink food coloring ((optional))n/a
- white nonpareil sprinkles ((optional garnish))n/a
- white sugar pearls ((optional garnish))n/a
flour 344 gbatter 949 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.
- Fat66% · 68th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar58% · 41st percentile · median 64%
- Egg5.2% · 7th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening0% · 11th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0.6% · 45th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 12 to 16 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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