Unfussy Sugar Cookies

smittenkitchen.com · Servings: About 80 1.5-inch cookies

Against 513 sugar cookie recipes

More leavening than 79% of recipes and less sugar than 78%.

How it compares

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

More leavening than 79% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Less sugar than 78% of recipes: 51% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

3 cups (390 grams) all-purpose flour390 g
1/2 teaspoon fine sea or table salt (if using unsalted butter only)≈ 3 g
2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar200 g
1 cup (8 ounces or 225 grams) salted or unsalted butter225 g
1 large egg≈ 50 g
1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
1 large egg white, ideally pasteurized (or use meringue or egg white powder as per label instructions)≈ 33 g

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

1 1/4 cups (150 grams) powdered sugar150 g
Pinch of salt≈ 0.4 g
A few drops of a flavoring of your choice (optional) (lemon, almond, vanilla)n/a
Food coloring and sprinkles, as you wishn/a

flour 390 gbatter 914 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 513 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: fat, sugar, egg, leavening, salt.