Northern Lights Iced Sugar Cookies
Sarah Jampel · kingarthurbaking.com · 12 / 2 dozen cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Close to the middle of 513 sugar cookie recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 14% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%.
- Leavening in the middle half of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Ingredients (13)
- 16 tablespoons (226g) unsalted butter, softened226 g
- 1 cup (198g) granulated sugar198 g
- 1 large egg, at room temperature≈ 50 g
- 2 teaspoons King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 8 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt≈ 3 g
- 3 cups (360g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour or King Arthur Gluten-Free Measure for Measure Flour*360 g
- natural food coloring, powders or gels*n/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 3 1/2 cups (396g) confectioners' sugar, sifted396 g
- 3 tablespoons (59g) light corn syrup or honey59 g
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup (57g to 76g) milk57 g
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice≈ 4.9 g
- coarse sparkling sugar, white nonpareils, and/or your favorite sprinklesn/a
flour 360 gbatter 852 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.
- Fat63% · 61st percentile · median 61%
- Sugar55% · 34th percentile · median 64%
- Egg14% · 26th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening1.9% · 69th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0.8% · 58th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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