Basic Shortbread Cookies
bakedbyanintrovert.com · 2019 · 18
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less sugar than 99% of recipes and less butter than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 99% of recipes: 16% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, about half as much.
- Less butter than 91% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
Ingredients (4)
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)≈ 227 g
- ½ cup confectioners' sugar≈ 60 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
flour 375 gbatter 664 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.
- Butter61% · 7th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar16% · 1st percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0.4% · 50th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 275°F / 135°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 60 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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