4 Ingredient Lemon Sugar Cookies
kirbiecravings.com · 2025 · 13 cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More leavening than 99% of recipes and no egg, unlike 92%.
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.
- No egg at all, where 92% of recipes use some (most of those 15 to 24% of the flour weight).
- More fat than 92% of recipes: 84% 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).
Ingredients (4)
- 1/2 cup (113g) unsalted butter (softened )113 g
- 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp (108g) granulated white sugar (plus additional 1 tbsp for dipping)108 g
- 1 cup (135g) self-rising flour (see note before starting)135 g
- 1 tbsp (5.4g) lemon zest5 g
flour 135 gbatter 361 g
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.
- Fat84% · 93rd percentile · median 61%
- Sugar80% · 71st percentile · median 64%
- Egg0% · 4th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening5% · 99th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 12 to 14 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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