Easy Sugar Cookies
Jeanine Donofrio · loveandlemons.com · 2025 · 24 cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More fat than 78% of recipes and more leavening than 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 78% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
- More leavening than 77% of recipes: 2.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)≈ 313 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- ½ teaspoon sea salt≈ 3 g
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder≈ 1.2 g
- 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks, at room temperature)≈ 227 g
- 1¼ cups granulated sugar (plus more for rolling (optional))≈ 250 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 large egg yolk≈ 18 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
flour 313 gbatter 872 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.
- Fat73% · 81st percentile · median 61%
- Sugar80% · 71st percentile · median 64%
- Egg22% · 72nd percentile · median 18%
- Leavening2.3% · 78th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1% · 74th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 11 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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