Soft and Chewy (Contest-Winning) Peanut Butter Cookies
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2022 · 23 to 24 cookies
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
More salt than 77% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 77% of recipes: 1.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.9%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 92% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 111%.
Ingredients (11)
- 1 cup (225 g) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled, see notes above225 g
- 1.5 cups (300 g) packed light brown sugar, or slightly less, see notes above300 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 2 large eggs, cold≈ 100 g
- 1 cup (255 g) smooth peanut butter, such as JIF or Skippy (i.e. not all-natural)255 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder≈ 1.2 g
- 1.25 teaspoons (5 gram) kosher salt5 g
- 2.5 cups (325 g) all-purpose flour325 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 to 4 tablespoons (25 to 50 g) granulated sugar for rolling50 g
- flaky sea salt for sprinkling, optionaln/a
flour 325 gbatter 1230 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 326 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Peanut butter79% · 35th percentile · median 88%
- Butter69% · 66th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar92% · 29th percentile · median 111%
- Egg31% · 56th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening2.2% · 42nd percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt1.5% · 79th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 14 to 16 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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