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Best Soft Sugar Cookies

Modern Honey® - www.modernhoney.com · modernhoney.com · 2023 · 24

Against 513 sugar cookie recipes

More salt than 90% of recipes and more sugar than 85%.

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How it compares

Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.

  • More salt than 90% of recipes: 1.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about twice as much.
  • More sugar than 85% of recipes: 96% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
  • More fat than 78% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
  • More leavening than 79% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Fat: 73%, 81st percentileSugar: 96%, 86th percentileEgg: 22%, 72nd percentileLeavening: 2.4%, 82nd percentileSalt: 1.4%, 92nd percentileFatSugarEggLeaveningSalt
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (10)

  • 1 cup Unsalted Butter≈ 227 g
  • 1 1/2 cups Sugar≈ 300 g
  • 1 large Egg≈ 50 g
  • 1 large Egg Yolk≈ 18 g
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract≈ 8 g
  • 2 1/2 cups Flour≈ 313 g
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder≈ 4.6 g
  • 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda≈ 3 g
  • 3/4 teaspoon Salt ((if using salted butter, use 1/8 teaspoon))≈ 4.5 g
  • Sparkling or Sanding Sugarn/a

flour 313 gbatter 928 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
  • Sugar96% · 86th percentile
  • Egg22% · 72nd percentile
  • Leavening2.4% · 82nd percentile
  • Salt1.4% · 92nd percentile

Oven

Temperature
350°F / 175°C
median 350°F
Time
9 to 12 minutes
median 11 minutes

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