Easy Christmas Shortbread Cookies
recipesfromapantry.com · 2020 · 24
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More sugar than 95% of recipes and more salt than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 95% of recipes: 78% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, about twice as much.
- More salt than 83% of recipes: 1.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%, about 3 times as much.
Ingredients (11)
- 1 cup (227g) butter (softened)227 g
- 1 cup (200g) sugar200 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 6 g
- 2 cups (256g) flour256 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg≈ 0.7 g
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger≈ 1.3 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 cups (224g) powdered sugar224 g
- 2 tablespoons water≈ 30 g
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup≈ 41 g
flour 256 gbatter 697 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.
- Butter89% · 62nd percentile · median 81%
- Sugar78% · 96th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.2% · 86th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 12 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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