The Top 5 Reasons Your Sugar Cookies End Up Flat (With Solutions!)
bakingkneads.com · 2024
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Less sugar than 90% of recipes and less fat than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 90% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
- Less fat than 84% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (7)
- 4 cups of all-purpose flour≈ 500 g
- ¾ tsp salt≈ 4.5 g
- ¾ tsp baking powder≈ 3.5 g
- 1 cup of softened butter≈ 227 g
- 1 cup of sugar≈ 200 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 8 g
flour 500 gbatter 1043 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.
- Fat45% · 15th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar40% · 8th percentile · median 64%
- Egg20% · 64th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening0.7% · 31st percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0.9% · 67th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 13 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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