Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
sugarspunrun.com · 2024 · 60 cookies (see note!)
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More salt than 83% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 83% of recipes: 1.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%, about 3 times as much.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)≈ 227 g
- ¾ cup powdered sugar≈ 90 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- ¼ cup Dutch-process cocoa powder≈ 22 g
- ½ teaspoon table salt≈ 3 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 6 oz chopped baking chocolate (for dipping (optional, may substitute 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips))170 g
- Sprinkles or nonpareils (for decorating (optional))n/a
flour 250 gbatter 596 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.
- Butter91% · 75th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar36% · 41st 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
- 12 to 14 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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