Chocolate Shortbread
King Arthur Test Kitchen · kingarthurbaking.com · 12
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More sugar than 98% of recipes and more butter than 94%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 98% of recipes: 94% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More butter than 94% of recipes: 108% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- More salt than 99% of recipes: 2.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%, about 7 times as much.
Ingredients (7)
- 16 tablespoons (227g) unsalted butter, softened227 g
- 1 teaspoon table salt, extra-fine if possible≈ 6 g
- 1 cup (198g) granulated sugar198 g
- 1/3 cup (28g) Dutch-process cocoa28 g
- 1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 1 3/4 cups (210g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour210 g
flour 210 gbatter 676 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.
- Butter108% · 94th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar94% · 99th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt2.9% · 100th 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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