Pecan Shortbread Cookies
onceuponachef.com · 2020 · 24 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More sugar than 87% of recipes and no salt, unlike 63%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 87% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (8)
- ¾ cup chopped pecans≈ 83 g
- 10 tablespoons (1¼ sticks) unsalted butter, softened≈ 142 g
- ½ cup confectioners' sugar≈ 60 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- Scant ¾ teaspoon kosher saltn/a
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour, (spooned into measuring cup and leveled-off, plus more for dusting)≈ 188 g
- 1 egg yolk, (beaten)≈ 18 g
- ¼ cup demerara or turbinado sugar ((You'll use less than this, but you need extra to roll the dough in))≈ 55 g
flour 188 gbatter 553 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.
- Butter76% · 36th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar61% · 88th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 5 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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