Easy Sugar Cookies & Sugar Cookie Frosting
sugarspunrun.com · 2021 · 40 sugar cookies (based off 3" / 7.6cm cookie cutters)
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More salt than 90% of recipes and more fat than 78%.
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 fat than 78% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (13)
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)≈ 227 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract ((see note))≈ 6 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour ((Plain flour))≈ 313 g
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder≈ 3.5 g
- ¾ teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 3 cups powdered sugar, sifted ((weigh before sifting))≈ 360 g
- 3-4 Tablespoons milk ((I use whole milk, but any kind will work))≈ 54 g
- 2 Tablespoons light corn syrup ((see note))≈ 41 g
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
- Gel food coloring (optional)n/a
- Additional candies and sprinkles for decorating (optional)n/a
flour 313 gbatter 804 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 · median 61%
- Sugar64% · 49th percentile · median 64%
- Egg16% · 39th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening1.1% · 44th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1.4% · 92nd percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 8 to 10 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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