Sugar Cookie Recipe {Copycat Swig Cookie} (2024)

FAQs

How much sugar is in a swig sugar cookie? ›

A typical Swig sugar cookie UNFROSTED has about 293 calories, 15 grams of fat and 14 grams of sugar. My Swig cookies WITH frosting are about 215 calories, 10 grams of fat and about 14 grams of sugar, depending on how much frosting you like to add!

Chef Smith says that Christmas cookies often spread if you don't cook them at the right temperature. This can be especially tricky with an older appliance. As an oven ages, the temperature may be less accurate. Smith recommends purchasing an oven thermometer to make sure you are baking at the correct temperature.

There are 293 calories in 1 cookie of Swig Sugar Cookie. * The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

But did you ever wonder just how much sugar is in a sugar cookie? It varies by who's making it, of course. However, according to the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (Release 27), one commercially prepared, regular sugar cookie with vanilla has 4.64 grams of sugar.

The answer? Granulated sugar takes the crown for chewy cookies, and here's why. The quest for chewy cookies is all about moisture retention. Granulated sugar, which is composed of larger crystals, is your go-to choice for achieving this desirable texture.

Powdered sugar in cookie dough will give you chewier cookies (if there's egg in the recipe). In shortbread-like cookies it gives you a cookie that's more dense but with a silkier crumb. If you have to substitute powdered for granulated, use 1 and 3/4 cups powdered sugar for every cup of granulated sugar in your recipe.

Place each portion onto a piece of lightly floured parchment paper or a lightly floured silicone baking mat. With a lightly floured rolling pin, roll the dough out to about 1/4-inch thickness. Use more flour if the dough seems too sticky. The rolled-out dough can be any shape, as long as it is evenly 1/4-inch thick.

Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens

If you're using the 21-ounce pouch of Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix, make dough as directed on the pouch for cutout cookies. For frosting, use 2 3/4 cups powdered sugar, 3 to 5 tablespoons milk and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla. The large pouch makes 32 cookies.

Refrigerating the dough allows the flour to fully hydrate and helps to make the cookie dough firmer. Firm dough prevents the cookies from spreading too much, which is why chilling the dough is a crucial step for cut-out and rolled cookies.

If you've ever tried to frost a cutout cookie neatly and smoothly, you know that bakery-worthy results require more than just spreading on icing with a knife. The proper technique is called flooding, and it allows you to apply a smooth layer of icing to all or part of the cookie.

Do you decorate sugar cookies hot or cold? ›

Cool the cookies completely

Ensure that your sugar cookies are completely cool before decorating; otherwise the royal icing will simply melt off the cookies.

“A typical chocolate chip cookie contains 11 grams of sugar per 33-gram serving while a carrot cake has 31 grams of sugar per 90-gram serving. A sweetened cereal can contain 11 grams of sugar per 30-gram serving.

If we get away from the 100g column but stick with added sugar, the 85g cookie contains 32.6g of added sugar. That's over eight teaspoons of sugar in one cookie. Woah.