The Best Sugar Cookies
Sofi | Broma Bakery · bromabakery.com · 2025 · 20 medium sized cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More salt than 90% 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.
- More salt than 90% of recipes: 1.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about twice as much.
- No leavening at all, where 77% of recipes use some (most of those 1 to 2.4% of the flour weight).
- More sugar than 83% of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 23% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%.
Ingredients (7)
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature≈ 114 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
- 1 large egg, at room temperature≈ 50 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 6 g
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract≈ 1.1 g
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour≈ 219 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
flour 219 gbatter 593 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.
- Fat52% · 29th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar91% · 84th percentile · median 64%
- Egg23% · 75th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening0% · 11th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1.4% · 92nd percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 8 to 12 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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