Watermelon sugar cookies
Cassie Best · bbcgoodfood.com · 2022 · Makes 40
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Less sugar than 90% of recipes and less egg than 91%.
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 egg than 91% of recipes: 7.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%, 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 (7)
- 175g cold butter175 g
- 100g golden caster sugar100 g
- 250g plain flour plus extra for dusting250 g
- 1 egg yolk (freeze the white for another recipe)≈ 18 g
- ½ tsp vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
- red and green food colouring gelsn/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- black edible icing penn/a
flour 250 gbatter 545 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.
- Fat70% · 75th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar40% · 8th percentile · median 64%
- Egg7.2% · 9th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening0% · 11th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 12 to 15 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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