Soft Brown Sugar Cookies
David Turner · kingarthurbaking.com · 26 to 28 cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More sugar than 97% of recipes and more salt than 98%.
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How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 97% of recipes: 125% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%, about twice as much.
- More salt than 98% of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Less fat than 82% of recipes: 47% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (10)
- 2 cups (240g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour240 g
- 3/4 teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder≈ 1.2 g
- 1 cup (213g) dark brown sugar or light brown sugar, packed213 g
- 8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter, softened113 g
- 1 tablespoon (21g) molasses21 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 2 teaspoons King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 8 g
- 1/3 cup (66g) granulated sugar66 g
flour 240 gbatter 720 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.
- Fat47% · 17th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar125% · 97th percentile · median 64%
- Egg21% · 69th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening1.8% · 65th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1.9% · 99th 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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