How to Make Shortbread Cookies & Chocolate Drizzle
a Couple Cooks · acouplecooks.com · 2016 · 30 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More salt than 98% of recipes and more butter than 81%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 98% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%, about 6 times as much.
- More butter than 81% of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- Less sugar than 76% of recipes: 32% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (6)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour≈ 125 g
- 1/3 cup confectioners’ sugar≈ 40 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 vanilla bean, seeds scrapedn/a
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, cut into 1-inch pieces≈ 114 g
- 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces57 g
flour 125 gbatter 338 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 433 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter91% · 82nd percentile · median 81%
- Sugar32% · 21st percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt2.4% · 99th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 15 to 17 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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