Butter Shortbread Cookies, 4 Ways
completelydelicious.com · 2020 · 48 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Close to the middle of 433 shortbread recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 49% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- No starch, like 83% of recipes.
Ingredients (16)
- 1 ½ cup salted butter (, at room temperature )≈ 341 g
- 1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 3 ¼ cup all-purpose flour≈ 406 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- ¼ cup chopped bittersweet or dark chocolate≈ 43 g
- ¼ teaspoon instant espresso powder≈ 0.6 g
- ¼ cup chopped nuts (, like pecans, walnuts, etc.)≈ 30 g
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 0.7 g
- ¼ cup chopped white chocolate≈ 43 g
- ¼ cup toasted coconut≈ 59 g
- ¼ cup chopped dried cranberries≈ 38 g
- 2 tablespoons candied orange peel≈ 30 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Melted white or dark chocolaten/a
- Coarse sugarn/a
- Flaky saltn/a
flour 406 gbatter 1195 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.
- Butter84% · 56th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar49% · 71st percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0.4% · 50th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 12 to 15 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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