Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies
Emily @ Handle the Heat · handletheheat.com · 2026 · 16 large cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More leavening than 90% of recipes and more salt than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 90% of recipes: 2.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about twice as much.
- More salt than 90% of recipes: 1.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about twice as much.
- More fat than 76% of recipes: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (7)
- 2½ cups (318 grams) all-purpose flour*318 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt≈ 4.5 g
- 2 sticks (226 grams) unsalted butter, (at cool room temperature)226 g
- 1¼ cups (250 grams) granulated sugar, (plus ¼ cup (50 grams) for rolling)250 g
- 1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk, (at room temperature)≈ 50 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
flour 318 gbatter 862 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.
- Fat71% · 76th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar79% · 67th percentile · median 64%
- Egg16% · 36th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening2.9% · 92nd percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1.4% · 92nd percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 12 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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