Sourdough Starter Discard Sugar Cookies
Rebecca Firkser · theperfectloaf.com · 2024 · 32 cookies
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Less egg than 90% of recipes and more salt than 81%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 90% of recipes: 8.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%, about half as much.
- More salt than 81% of recipes: 1.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.7%.
- Fat in the middle half of recipes: 69% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (9)
- 226 grams (1 cup, 2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces226 g
- 330 grams (2 ⅔ cups) all-purpose flour330 g
- 6 grams (1 ½ teaspoons) baking powder6 g
- 4 grams (1 ½ teaspoons Diamond Crystal or ¾ teaspoon Morton) kosher salt4 g
- 200 grams (1 cup) granulated sugar, plus more for rolling200 g
- 50 grams (¼ cup) light brown sugar50 g
- 28 grams (2 large) egg yolks, cold from the refrigerator28 g
- 9 grams (2 teaspoons) vanilla extract9 g
- 160 grams (scant ¾ cup) sourdough starter discard (unfed, 100% hydration), preferably cold from the refrigerator160 g
flour 330 gbatter 1013 g
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 513 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Fat69% · 74th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar76% · 64th percentile · median 64%
- Egg8.5% · 10th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening1.8% · 65th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt1.2% · 84th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 13 to 16 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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