Crystallised ginger & chocolate shortbread
Benjamina Ebuehi · bbcgoodfood.com · 2022 · 24
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less sugar than 84% of recipes and less butter than 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 84% of recipes: 30% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less butter than 77% of recipes: 67% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- More starch than 83% of recipes: 2.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (7)
- 200g salted butter softened200 g
- 90g caster sugar90 g
- 2 tsp ground ginger≈ 5 g
- 3 tbsp crystallised stem ginger finely chopped, plus 2 tbsp to decorate≈ 23 g
- 300g plain flour300 g
- 1 tbsp cornflour≈ 8 g
- 150g dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa solids)150 g
flour 300 gbatter 777 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.
- Butter67% · 18th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar30% · 15th percentile · median 40%
- Starch2.7% · 84th percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 15 to 20 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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