Chocolate shortbread cookies
theflavorbender.com · 2021 · 25 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More starch than 90% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More starch than 90% of recipes: 14% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 90% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
Ingredients (8)
- 226 g unsalted butter (2 sticks / 1 cup)226 g
- ¼ tsp fine sea salt (I use slightly more for a salty kick )≈ 1.5 g
- 115 g caster sugar115 g
- 2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 35 g rice flour or cornstarch (about ¼ cup, measured by spoon and level method)35 g
- 45 g cocoa powder (about ¼ cup + 2 tbsp, measured by spoon and level method)45 g
- 250 g AP flour (about 2 cups, measured by spoon and level method)250 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Melted chocolate to decorate (optional (I used Valrhona passionfruit callets here))n/a
flour 250 gbatter 681 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% · 66th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar46% · 65th percentile · median 40%
- Starch14% · 91st percentile · median 0%
- Salt0.6% · 61st percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 to 60 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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