Classic Shortbread Cookies
leitesculinaria.com · 2015 · 18 to 24 stars
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less butter than 87% of recipes and less sugar than 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 87% of recipes: 64% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- Less sugar than 76% of recipes: 32% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (5)
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (plus more for the work surface)≈ 156 g
- 7 tablespoons (3 1/2 oz) unsalted butter (cubed and softened)≈ 99 g
- 1/4 cup superfine sugar (or just blitz granulated sugar in a blender until finely ground but not powdery) (plus more for finishing)≈ 50 g
- 2 drops vanilla extract≈ 0.8 g
- Pinch fine sea salt ((optional))≈ 0.4 g
flour 156 gbatter 307 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.
- Butter64% · 12th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar32% · 21st percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0.3% · 46th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 275°F / 135°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 22 to 30 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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