Best Frosted Sugar Cookies
Modern Honey® - www.modernhoney.com · modernhoney.com · 2026 · 24
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More salt than 86% of recipes and more sugar than 79%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 86% of recipes: 1.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%.
- More sugar than 79% of recipes: 87% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
- More leavening than 79% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Ingredients (15)
- 1 cup Butter ((softened))≈ 227 g
- 1 1/2 cup Sugar≈ 300 g
- 1 large Egg≈ 50 g
- 1 large Egg Yolk≈ 18 g
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract≈ 8 g
- 2 3/4 cups Flour≈ 344 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder≈ 7 g
- 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda≈ 1.5 g
- 3/4 teaspoon Salt≈ 4.5 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1/2 cup Butter ((softened))≈ 114 g
- (1) 8-ounce pkg. Cream Cheese ((softened))227 g
- 3 1/2 to 4 cups Powdered Sugar≈ 450 g
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract or Vanilla Bean Paste≈ 4.2 g
- 1/4 teaspoon Almond Extract ((optional))≈ 1.1 g
- Gel Food Coloring and Sprinkles ((optional))n/a
flour 344 gbatter 960 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.
- Fat66% · 68th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar87% · 80th percentile · median 64%
- Egg20% · 59th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening2.4% · 82nd percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1.3% · 88th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 8 to 10 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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