Orange Sugar Cookies
Taste of Home Editorial Team · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · 2-1
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
No leavening, unlike 77% 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.
- No leavening at all, where 77% of recipes use some (most of those 1 to 2.4% of the flour weight).
- More fat than 78% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (11)
- 1 cup butter, softened≈ 227 g
- 1 cup sugar≈ 200 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 large egg, room temperature≈ 50 g
- 4 teaspoons grated orange zest≈ 8 g
- 1/3 cup orange juice≈ 79 g
- 1-1/2 teaspoons lemon extract≈ 6 g
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 313 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar≈ 120 g
- 2 tablespoons 2% milk≈ 31 g
- 3 drops orange food coloring, optional≈ 1.2 g
flour 313 gbatter 886 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%
- Leavening0% · 11th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1% · 74th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 8 to 10 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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