Brown Butter Shortbread
completelydelicious.com · 2023 · 32 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
No salt, unlike 63% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 34% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (5)
- 8 ounces salted butter (, cut into cubes (225 grams))225 g
- ¾ cup powdered sugar (, sifted (85 grams))85 g
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour ((250 grams))250 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Dark chocolate (, melted for drizzle (optional))n/a
flour 250 gbatter 562 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.
- Butter90% · 64th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar34% · 34th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 300°F / 150°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 35 to 40 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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