My Favorite Sugar Cookies
Mel · melskitchencafe.com · 2024 · 24 -36 cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More egg than 92% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 92% of recipes: 32% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%.
- Salt in the middle half of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%.
Ingredients (10)
- 1 1/2 cups butter (softened to cool room temperature)≈ 341 g
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar≈ 60 g
- 4 large eggs≈ 200 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla≈ 4.2 g
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract (optional)≈ 2.1 g
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest (from about 1 lemon)≈ 6 g
- 5 cups all-purpose flour≈ 625 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
flour 625 gbatter 1553 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.
- Fat55% · 35th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar58% · 39th percentile · median 64%
- Egg32% · 94th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening1.5% · 55th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1% · 74th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 7 to 8 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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