Enter your recipe's normal yield, a target yield, and one ingredient's amount to see the scaled amount for that target.
Scaling a cookie recipe works the same way as scaling any recipe: find the multiplier by dividing your target yield by the recipe's original yield, then multiply every ingredient amount by that same multiplier. This calculator computes that multiplier and applies it to one ingredient amount you enter — apply the same multiplier to every other ingredient in the recipe.
Source: Based on standard recipe-scaling method: multiply every ingredient by the ratio of target yield to original yield, the same proportional-scaling principle used by the site's Recipe Scaler & Multiplier tool.
Calculate the multiplier once (target yield ÷ original yield), then multiply every single ingredient in the recipe — flour, sugar, butter, eggs, leavening — by that same number.
Not for the individual cookies themselves, since each cookie is still the same size — but if you're baking more trays, plan for more total oven time or rotate trays if baking multiple at once.
Usually yes for modest scale-ups, but for very large multiples some bakers scale leavening slightly less than 1:1 to avoid an overly cakey texture — test a small batch first if you're more than tripling a recipe.
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