Bavarian Sugar Cookies
Sooli · nigella.com · Makes: 60
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More leavening than 99% of recipes and more fat than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 99% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 4 times as much.
- More fat than 91% of recipes: 81% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
- No salt at all, where 80% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.1% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (13)
- 2¾ cups self-rising flour≈ 344 g
- ½ cup cornstarch≈ 64 g
- 6 ounces softened butter170 g
- ½ cup vegetable oil (or light olive oil)≈ 109 g
- 1 cup superfine sugar≈ 200 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla essence≈ 8 g
- ½ teaspoon almond essence≈ 2.1 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1½ cups confectioners' sugar≈ 180 g
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence≈ 2.1 g
- 5 tablespoons cream≈ 75 g
- 2 drops food colouring (pink)≈ 0.8 g
- 1 hundreds and thousandsn/a
flour 344 gbatter 947 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Fat81% · 91st percentile · median 61%
- Sugar58% · 41st percentile · median 64%
- Egg15% · 31st percentile · median 18%
- Leavening5% · 99th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 7 to 12 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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