Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Jenna Barnard · butternutbakeryblog.com · 2025 · 26 / About 26 cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Less egg than 88% of recipes and less fat than 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 88% of recipes: 11% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%.
- Less fat than 80% of recipes: 50% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (15)
- 1 cup (224g) unsalted butter, room temperature224 g
- 6 oz (170g) full fat cream cheese, room temperature170 g
- 1 1/2 cups (300g) granulated sugar300 g
- 1 large egg + 1 egg yolk≈ 50 g
- 2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt≈ 2 g
- 1/2 tsp baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar≈ 1.6 g
- 3 1/2 cups (450g) all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled, plus more for dusting450 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1/2 cup (112g) unsalted butter, room temp112 g
- 2 oz full fat cream cheese, room temp57 g
- 2 cups (220g) powdered sugar, spooned and leveled220 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- Gel food coloring (optional)n/a
- Sprinkles, for decoratingn/a
flour 450 gbatter 1208 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.
- Fat50% · 20th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar67% · 56th percentile · median 64%
- Egg11% · 12th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening0.5% · 27th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0.4% · 33rd percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 8 to 10 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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