Lemon Shortbread Recipe
crazyforcrust.com · 2025 · 34 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More starch than 86% of recipes and more butter than 82%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More starch than 86% of recipes: 9.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More butter than 82% of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- More salt than 83% of recipes: 1.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%, about 3 times as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 2 cups (248g) all-purpose flour248 g
- 3 tablespoons (24g) cornstarch24 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ¾ cup (85g) powdered sugar85 g
- 2 tablespoons lemon zest ((from about 2 lemons))≈ 12 g
- 1 cup (226g) unsalted butter (, softened)226 g
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice≈ 10 g
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
flour 248 gbatter 610 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.
- Butter91% · 83rd percentile · median 81%
- Sugar34% · 34th percentile · median 40%
- Starch9.7% · 87th percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.2% · 86th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 9 to 12 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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