Valentine Sugar Cookies with Vanilla Icing

Kim Lange · thebakingchocolatess.com · 2022 · 20 Cookies

Against 513 sugar cookie recipes

More fat than 95% of recipes and more salt than 99%.

How it compares

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

More fat than 95% of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
More salt than 99% of recipes: 2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%, about 3 times as much.
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%.

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

1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
3 cups all-purpose flour (or for Gluten-Free cookies, use something like Pillsbury gluten-free flour)≈ 375 g
1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
3/4 teaspoon salt≈ 4.5 g
1 cup unsalted butter (softened (or use salted butter, omit salt))≈ 227 g
2 large eggs≈ 100 g
2 tablespoons milk≈ 31 g
2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened (or use salted butter, omit salt))≈ 114 g
½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

flour 375 gbatter 1073 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.