Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
Kim Lange · thebakingchocolatess.com · 2025 · 24 cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
More leavening than 88% of recipes and more egg than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 88% of recipes: 2.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about twice as much.
- More egg than 83% of recipes: 27% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%.
- More sugar than 76% of recipes: 84% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
Ingredients (11)
- 1 cup unsalted butter (browned)≈ 227 g
- ¾ cup brown sugar≈ 165 g
- ¾ cup granulated sugar≈ 150 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1½ cups powdered sugar≈ 180 g
- A splash of milk (as needed to thin)n/a
flour 375 gbatter 1039 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.
- Fat61% · 51st percentile · median 61%
- Sugar84% · 76th percentile · median 64%
- Egg27% · 85th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening2.8% · 90th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0.8% · 58th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 12 to 14 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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