Christmas shortbread biscuits
Katy Gilhooly · bbcgoodfood.com · 2023 · 20
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less butter than 96% 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 butter than 96% of recipes: 55% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (9)
- 275g plain flour275 g
- 100g caster sugar100 g
- 1 tsp ground mixed spice ground cinnamon or ground cardamom (optional)≈ 2.6 g
- 150g salted butter cut into cubes150 g
- 2 egg yolks beaten (freeze the extra whites to use in another recipe)≈ 36 g
- 100g white chocolate roughly chopped100 g
- 15g crystallised ginger chopped, or dried cranberries, chopped15 g
- 100g dark chocolate roughly chopped100 g
- 15g flaked almonds or shelled pistachios, thinly sliced15 g
flour 275 gbatter 794 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.
- Butter55% · 3rd percentile · median 81%
- Sugar36% · 44th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 8 to 10 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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