Brown Sugar Shortbread
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2015 · 24 servings
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less sugar than 81% of recipes and no salt, unlike 63%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 81% of recipes: 31% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
- Less butter than 75% of recipes: 69% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
Ingredients (3)
- ½ cup (110 g) salted butter, at room temperature, see notes above if using unsalted110 g
- ¼ cup (50 g) light brown sugar50 g
- 1⅓ cups (160 g) all-purpose flour160 g
flour 160 gbatter 320 g
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 433 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter69% · 25th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar31% · 18th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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