🧾 Ridiculously Easy Biscoff Shortbread
thecafesucrefarine.com · 2025 · 12 servings
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More butter than 88% of recipes and more starch than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 88% of recipes: 104% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- More starch than 91% of recipes: 15% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 51% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (11)
- 8 Biscoff cookies (63g or about ⅔ cup crushed crumbs)63 g
- 1 cup very soft butter (I use salted butter)≈ 227 g
- ½ cup granulated sugar≈ 100 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- ¼ cup cornstarch≈ 32 g
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt (I use Morton’s)≈ 2 g
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour≈ 219 g
- 1 tablespoon cane or granulated sugar≈ 13 g
- flaky sea salt (optional (We love Maldon sea salt))n/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 4 Biscoff cookies (31g crushed crumbs)31 g
- 1 tablespoon melted butter (I use salted )≈ 14 g
flour 219 gbatter 660 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.
- Butter104% · 90th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar51% · 75th percentile · median 40%
- Starch15% · 92nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0.9% · 73rd percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 35 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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