Whipped Shortbread Cookies
sugarspunrun.com · 2021 · 35 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More salt than 93% of recipes and more starch than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 93% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.4%, about 4.5 times as much.
- More starch than 85% of recipes: 6.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
Ingredients (7)
- 1 cup unsalted butter¹ (softened )≈ 227 g
- ¾ cup powdered sugar ((plus additional for imprinting cookies))≈ 90 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- ¾ teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 2 Tablespoons cornstarch≈ 16 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Nonpareils (jimmies, or colored sanding sugar for decorating, optional)n/a
flour 250 gbatter 592 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%
- Starch6.4% · 86th percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.8% · 94th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 12 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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