Chocolate Shortbread Cookies Recipe
biggerbolderbaking.com · 2021 · 24 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less sugar than 90% 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 90% of recipes: 27% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (6)
- 2 cups (10oz/284g) all-purpose flour284 g
- ¼ cup (1oz/28g) cocoa powder (sifted)28 g
- 1 cup (8oz/225g) butter (at room temperature)225 g
- ⅔ cup (2 ⅔ oz/76g) confectioner’s sugar (sifted)76 g
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
- ⅔ cup (4oz/115g) semi-sweet or dark chocolate (chopped)115 g
flour 284 gbatter 730 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.
- Butter79% · 42nd percentile · median 81%
- Sugar27% · 9th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 18 to 20 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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