Shortbread Wedge Cookies
Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2021 · 16 large, 24 medium, or 32 small
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More starch than 87% 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 starch than 87% of recipes: 11% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More salt than 83% of recipes: 1.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%, about 3 times as much.
- More sugar than 81% of recipes: 54% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (7)
- 1 cup (16 Tbsp; 226g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature226 g
- 2/3 cup (135g) granulated sugar135 g
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract≈ 6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 2 cups (250g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)250 g
- 1/4 cup (28g) cornstarch28 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- optional: coarse sparkling sugarn/a
flour 250 gbatter 648 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.
- Butter90% · 66th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar54% · 81st percentile · median 40%
- Starch11% · 88th percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.2% · 86th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 28 to 30 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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