Soft Cut-Out Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Danielle · livewellbakeoften.com · 2017 · 16 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 (13)
- 3 cups (375 grams) all-purpose flour ((spooned & leveled))375 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 cup (190 grams) vegetable shortening190 g
- 1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar200 g
- 1 large egg (, room temperature)≈ 50 g
- 2 tablespoons (30ml) milk≈ 31 g
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract≈ 8 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 (8-ounce) package brick-style cream cheese (, softened to room temperature)227 g
- ½ cup (95 grams) vegetable shortening95 g
- 2 cups (240 grams) powdered sugar240 g
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1-2 drops food dye ((optional))≈ 0.6 g
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
- 8 to 13 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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