Easy Shortbread Recipe
Gemma Stafford · biggerbolderbaking.com · 2021 · 24 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less sugar than 97% 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 97% of recipes: 21% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, about half as much.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (3)
- 1 cup (8 oz/225 g) butter, softened225 g
- ½ cup (2 oz/58 g) powdered sugar, (sifted)58 g
- 2 cups (10 oz/280 g) all purpose flour280 g
flour 280 gbatter 563 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.
- Butter80% · 49th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar21% · 2nd percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 18 to 20 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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