Lemon Shortbread Cookies
Beyond Frosting · beyondfrosting.com · 2026 · 24 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More sugar than 90% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 64% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Salt in the middle half of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%.
Ingredients (7)
- 1 cup (226g) unsalted butter, at room temperature226 g
- 2 tablespoons lemon zest≈ 12 g
- ¾ cups (143g) granulated sugar143 g
- 2 ½ cups (300g) all-purpose flour300 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ½ teaspoon lemon extract≈ 2.1 g
- ¼ cup or more sparkling sanding sugar≈ 50 g
flour 300 gbatter 736 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.
- Butter75% · 36th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar64% · 90th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt1% · 76th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 9 to 12 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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