Easter sugar cookies
Einfach Kochen · bbcgoodfood.com · 2024 · 60
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Less fat than 94% of recipes and less sugar than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 94% of recipes: 36% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
- Less sugar than 95% of recipes: 34% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%, about half as much.
- No leavening at all, where 77% of recipes use some (most of those 1 to 2.4% of the flour weight).
- No salt at all, where 80% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.1% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (11)
- 200g plain flour plus extra for dusting200 g
- 120g caster sugar120 g
- ½ vanilla bean seeds scraped out or ½ tsp vanilla pasten/a
- 125g butter cut into cubes125 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
- 150g plain flour150 g
- 50g cocoa powder50 g
- ½ vanilla bean seeds scraped out, or ½ tsp vanilla bean pasten/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 500g icing sugar500 g
- 2 egg whites≈ 66 g
- food colouring paste we used pastel yellow, green and pinkn/a
flour 350 gbatter 695 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.
- Fat36% · 5th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar34% · 4th percentile · median 64%
- Egg14% · 28th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening0% · 11th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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