Sourdough Sugar Cookies
Molly Marzalek-Kelly · kingarthurbaking.com · 36 / about 3 dozen cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More sugar 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 sugar than 90% of recipes: 103% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
- More salt than 90% of recipes: 1.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about twice as much.
- Less egg than 88% of recipes: 11% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%.
- More leavening than 77% of recipes: 2.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Ingredients (12)
- 2 2/3 cups (320g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour320 g
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder≈ 6 g
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 12 tablespoons (170g) unsalted butter170 g
- 2 ounces (57g) cream cheese57 g
- 1 1/3 cups (264g) granulated sugar264 g
- 3/4 teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
- 2 large egg yolks≈ 36 g
- 1 tablespoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract or vanilla bean paste≈ 13 g
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract or 1/2 teaspoon almond emulsion≈ 1.1 g
- 1/2 cup (113g) sourdough starter, unfed/discard*113 g
- 1/3 cup (66g) granulated sugar66 g
flour 320 gbatter 1052 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.
- Fat53% · 31st percentile · median 61%
- Sugar103% · 91st percentile · median 64%
- Egg11% · 12th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening2.3% · 78th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1.4% · 92nd percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 13 to 15 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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