Salted Butter Chocolate Chunk Shortbread
smittenkitchen.com · Servings: 24 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
No salt, unlike 63% of recipes and more sugar than 75%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
- More sugar than 75% of recipes: 52% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 cup (8 ounces or 225 grams) salted butter, cold, cut into small pieces225 g
- 1/3 cup (65 grams) granulated sugar65 g
- 1/3 cup (70 grams) light brown sugar70 g
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2 cups (260 grams) all-purpose flour260 g
- 5.5 to 6 ounces (155 to 170 grams) semi- or bittersweet dark chocolate, chopped into chunks, see Note below170 g
- 1 large egg or 1 large egg white (either works)≈ 33 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Turbinado sugar, for rollingn/a
- Flaky sea salt for sprinklingn/a
flour 260 gbatter 827 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.
- Butter87% · 59th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar52% · 75th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 18 minutes
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