Whipped Shortbread Cookies
momontimeout.com · 2021 · 20
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More starch than 98% of recipes and more butter than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More starch than 98% of recipes: 47% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More butter than 88% of recipes: 102% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (6)
- ¾ cup butter (softened, 12 tablespoons or 1 ½ sticks)≈ 170 g
- 6 tablespoons powdered sugar (spooned and leveled (¼ cup PLUS 2 tablespoons))≈ 75 g
- 1 teaspoon almond extract (or vanilla extract)≈ 4.2 g
- 1 ⅓ cup all purpose flour (spooned and leveled)≈ 167 g
- 6 tablespoons corn starch (spooned and leveled, ¼ cup PLUS 2 tablespoons)≈ 78 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- ¼ cups Christmas sprinkles (nonpareils, Jimmies, etc.)≈ 59 g
flour 167 gbatter 493 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.
- Butter102% · 89th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar45% · 62nd percentile · median 40%
- Starch47% · 99th percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 300°F / 150°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 12 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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