Self-Rising Crunchy Sugar Cookies
King Arthur Test Kitchen · kingarthurbaking.com · 24 / 4 dozen cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More leavening than 99% of recipes and less fat than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 99% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 4 times as much.
- Less fat than 89% of recipes: 41% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
- No salt at all, where 80% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.1% of the flour weight).
- More sugar than 78% of recipes: 87% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
Ingredients (6)
- 2 cups (227g) King Arthur Unbleached Self-Rising Flour227 g
- 1/2 cup (92g) vegetable shortening or 8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter, room temperature92 g
- 1 cup (198g) granulated sugar198 g
- 1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar or coarse sparkling sugar, to garnish50 g
flour 227 gbatter 571 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Fat41% · 11th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar87% · 79th percentile · median 64%
- Egg22% · 74th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening5% · 99th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 12 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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