Whipped Lemon Shortbread
Molly Marzalek-Kelly · kingarthurbaking.com · 23 medium (about 2 1 / 2") cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More butter than 93% of recipes and more sugar than 92%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 93% of recipes: 106% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- More sugar than 92% of recipes: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- More salt than 89% of recipes: 1.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%, about 3.5 times as much.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 cup (93g) masa harina93 g
- 1 cup (120g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour120 g
- 16 tablespoons (226g) unsalted butter, softened226 g
- 3/4 cup (85g) confectioners' sugar85 g
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt≈ 3 g
- zest of 2 lemonsn/a
- 2 teaspoons King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 8 g
- 1 teaspoon lemon paste, optional≈ 4.9 g
- 1/3 cup (66g) granulated sugar66 g
flour 213 gbatter 606 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.
- Butter106% · 93rd percentile · median 81%
- Sugar71% · 92nd percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.4% · 90th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 12 to 16 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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