Twice-Baked Shortbread
smittenkitchen.com · Servings: 12 to 24 cookies, depending on how you cut them
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less sugar than 81% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 81% of recipes: 32% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 90% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
Ingredients (6)
- 12 tablespoons (6 ounces or 170 grams) unsalted butter, melted and still warm170 g
- 5 tablespoons (60 grams) granulated sugar60 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or the seeds from half a vanilla bean≈ 4.2 g
- 1/4 teaspoon salt or a two solid pinches of flaky sea salt (such as Maldon)≈ 0.6 g
- 1 1/2 cups (190 grams or 6.75 ounces) all-purpose flour190 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Turbinado, Demerara or another coarse sugar for sprinklingn/a
flour 190 gbatter 425 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% · 64th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar32% · 19th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0.3% · 46th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 18 minutes
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