Grammy's Kitchen · Shortbread · Shortbread Cookies
One of 67 shortbread recipes we measured
from preppykitchen.com
5,376 cooks on preppykitchen.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 67.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 79% | 86% |
| total sugar | 56% | 56% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 142 g | 10 tbsp unsalted butter (unsalted butter, at room temperature 142g) |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract |
| 180 g | 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (180g) |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (optional) |
Method: 9 steps, published by preppykitchen.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Really good, and pretty quick and easy to make, as pastries go! Will have to experiment with toppings or icing next time I make them. Something like a chocolate drizzle would pair great. For anyone reading, if the dough is a biiit too crumbly and fights you” — a cook, 5.0★
“Made recipe as listed. Also made candied orange and diced up finished orange and mixed with milk chocolate to coat top of shortbread cookies. Wife asked for another batch as the first one got low. It was hard to eat just one. It’s a versatile cookie. Dough is ” — a cook, 5.0★