Holiday Sugar Cookies (A Recipe that Actually Works)

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Against 513 sugar cookie recipes

More egg than 95% of recipes.

How it compares

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

More egg than 95% of recipes: 32% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%.
Salt in the middle half of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%.

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

340 g butter, unsalted, room temperature340 g
400 g sugar, white, granulated400 g
4 eggs, large≈ 200 g
5 ml vanilla extract (1 teaspoon)≈ 4.3 g
625 g all-purpose flour625 g
9 g baking powder (2 teaspoons) (not baking soda)9 g
6 g salt (1 teaspoon)6 g
170 g butter, unsalted, room temperature170 g
200 g sugar, white, granulated200 g
2 eggs, large≈ 100 g
3 ml vanilla extract (1/2 teaspoon)≈ 2.6 g
310 g all-purpose flour310 g
5 g baking powder (1 teaspoon) (not baking soda)5 g
3 g salt (1/2 teaspoon)3 g
Bake 8 to 10 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.n/a
The very high butter content means you have work very quickly in a cold kitchen–rather hard to do when you're oven is preheating to 400 F, huh?n/a
Resist the temptation to bake more than one pan at a time. You can do so, but the bottom pan of cookies will bake unevenly.n/a
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If you wish to decorate them with coloured sugar(s), brush cookies with water and then generously sprinkle with (coloured) granulated sugar(s) before baking.n/a

flour 935 gbatter 2375 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.