Chocolate button shortbread cookies
janespatisserie.com · 2025 · 12 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More starch than 97% 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.
- More starch than 97% of recipes: 33% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (6)
- 200 g unsalted butter ((block butter))200 g
- 100 g caster sugar ((plus extra for sprinkling))100 g
- 225 g plain flour ((plus extra for dusting))225 g
- 75 g cornflour ((or rice flour - see notes))75 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 150-300 g chocolate buttons ((or chips/chopped chocolate) ** please see notes)300 g
flour 225 gbatter 904 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.
- Butter89% · 63rd percentile · median 81%
- Sugar44% · 61st percentile · median 40%
- Starch33% · 98th percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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