Cookie Calculator
Cookie flour, sugar, and butter for any dozen count.
What it does
Cookies scale from a base five dozen. Flour, sugar, and butter ratios hold from single trays to party batches.
The tool above scales the base. Two dozen need 0.9 cups of flour with 0.6 cups of sugar and 0.8 sticks of butter. The metric match is 113 g with 120 g and 90 g.
Base ratios anchor baking. Five dozen take 2.25 cups of flour, 1.5 cups of sugar, and 2 sticks of butter.
Chilling firms dough. Cold scoops spread less and brown edges better than warm rushed trays.
Even trays bake evenly. Same scoop sizes with parchment and turning finish batches together.
How to use
- Pick imperial (cups) or metric (g).
- Enter dozens: 2 suits the default.
- Read flour first.
- Read sugar next, then butter.
- Chill dough and bake even trays.
Formula
- dozens
- Dozen cookies to bake.
Metric runs 125 g flour, 200 g sugar per cup with 113 g butter per stick.
Worked example
Example: 2 dozen cookies
Imperial defaults: 2 dozen. These are also the default values, so the page opens on this answer.
- Batch: 2 dozen cookies.
- Flour: 2 x 2.25 / 5 = 0.9 cups.
- Sugar: 2 x 1.5 / 5 = 0.6 cups.
- Butter: 2 x 2 / 5 = 0.8 sticks.
- Tool shows 0.9 cups flour, 0.6 cups sugar, 0.8 sticks butter.
Reference table
| Dozens | Flour | Butter |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0.9 cups | 0.8 sticks |
| 5 | 2.25 cups | 2 sticks |
| 10 | 4.5 cups | 4 sticks |
Limits
- Drop cookie ratios only. Cutouts differ.
- Cocoa and oats shift ratios.
- Oven gaps shift timing.
- Butter brands vary in water.
Common mistakes
- Melting butter to oil soup.
- Skipping the chill rest.
- Crowded trays steaming edges.
- Guessing dozens from dough balls.
- Old baking soda falling flat.
Try it yourself
Quick checks. Answers sit tucked under each question.
5 dozen?
Flour is 5 x 2.25 / 5 = 2.25 cups. Sugar is 5 x 1.5 / 5 = 1.5 cups. Butter is 5 x 2 / 5 = 2 sticks.
10 dozen?
Flour is 10 x 2.25 / 5 = 4.5 cups. Sugar is 10 x 1.5 / 5 = 3 cups. Butter is 10 x 2 / 5 = 4 sticks.
Questions
Flour for 2 dozen?
Scale the 5 dozen base. Here 2 x 2.25 / 5 = 0.9 cups flour.
Base batch?
Base runs 2.25 cups flour, 1.5 cups sugar, 2 sticks butter per 5 dozen.
Butter per dozen?
Two sticks per 5 dozen, so 0.4 sticks each dozen. Here 0.8 sticks for 2 dozen.
Chewy or crisp?
More brown sugar and chill time chew; white sugar and thin shapes crisp.
Chill dough?
Yes. Cold scoops spread less and brown edges better than warm rushed trays.
Freeze dough?
Yes. Scoop, freeze solid, then bake from frozen adding a minute or two.