Halloween Sugar Cookies
livewellbakeoften.com · 2025 · 22 cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More leavening than 84% of recipes and less egg than 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 84% of recipes: 2.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about twice as much.
- Less egg than 76% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%.
- Fat in the middle half of recipes: 51% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (10)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled (375 grams))375 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 cup vegetable shortening ((190 grams; I used Crisco))190 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar ((200 grams))200 g
- 1 large egg (at room temperature)≈ 50 g
- 2 tablespoons whole milk ((30 ml))≈ 31 g
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- Royal icing or easy sugar cookie icingn/a
- Gel food coloringn/a
flour 375 gbatter 866 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.
- Fat51% · 27th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar53% · 28th percentile · median 64%
- Egg13% · 20th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening2.5% · 86th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0.8% · 58th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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