Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies
King Arthur Test Kitchen · kingarthurbaking.com · 18 / about eighteen 3" cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
No egg, unlike 92% of recipes and less fat than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No egg at all, where 92% of recipes use some (most of those 15 to 24% of the flour weight).
- Less fat than 83% of recipes: 46% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (12)
- 1/2 cup (91g) vegetable shortening91 g
- 2/3 cup (133g) granulated sugar133 g
- 1/4 cup (56g) buttermilk56 g
- 1 tablespoon (14g) King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract14 g
- 1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons (196g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour196 g
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg, to taste≈ 0.5 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt≈ 1.5 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 cups (227g) confectioners' sugar227 g
- 8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter, softened or browned*113 g
- 1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 to 2 tablespoons milk or bourbon≈ 23 g
flour 196 gbatter 495 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.
- Fat46% · 16th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar68% · 58th percentile · median 64%
- Egg0% · 4th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening1.5% · 55th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0.8% · 58th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 14 to 16 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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