Gourmet Sugar Cookies
sugarspunrun.com · 2025 · 17 large cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Less fat than 80% of recipes and more leavening than 75%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 80% of recipes: 50% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
- More leavening than 75% of recipes: 2.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)≈ 227 g
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar≈ 300 g
- 2 large eggs (room temperature preferred)≈ 100 g
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 4 cups cake flour ((all-purpose will not yield the same result but see note to substitute))≈ 456 g
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- ¾ teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Coarse sugar (for rolling (see note))n/a
flour 456 gbatter 1110 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.
- Fat50% · 20th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar66% · 54th percentile · median 64%
- Egg22% · 73rd percentile · median 18%
- Leavening2.2% · 76th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1% · 74th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 11 to 13 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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