Almond Shortbread Cookies
Food Network · foodnetwork.com · 2017 · 30 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less butter than 98% of recipes and more sugar than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 98% of recipes: 50% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 66% 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 (7)
- 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter≈ 113 g
- 3/4 cup sugar≈ 150 g
- 1 egg, beaten≈ 50 g
- 1 drop almond extract≈ 0.4 g
- 1 1/4 cup sifted all-purpose flour, plus extra to dust≈ 156 g
- 3/4 cup ground almonds≈ 72 g
- Zest of 1 lemonn/a
flour 228 gbatter 542 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.
- Butter50% · 1st percentile · median 81%
- Sugar66% · 90th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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