Marzipan Shortbread Cookies
Charlotte Rutledge · kingarthurbaking.com · 20 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less sugar than 97% of recipes and less butter than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 97% of recipes: 21% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, about half as much.
- Less butter than 95% of recipes: 59% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- Salt in the middle half of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%.
Ingredients (8)
- 2 cups (240g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour240 g
- 3/8 teaspoon table salt≈ 2.3 g
- 10 tablespoons (142g) unsalted butter, softened142 g
- 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon (113g) marzipan113 g
- 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar50 g
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract≈ 2.1 g
- 1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 large egg yolk≈ 18 g
flour 240 gbatter 572 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.
- Butter59% · 5th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar21% · 2nd percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt1% · 76th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 300°F / 150°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 18 to 22 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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