Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies
Jenna Barnard · butternutbakeryblog.com · 2025 · 15 cookies
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
More sugar than 92% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 92% of recipes: 164% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 111%.
- Salt in the middle half of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.9%.
Ingredients (14)
- 1/2 cup (108g) unsalted butter, room temp108 g
- 2/3 cup (175g) creamy peanut butter175 g
- 3/4 cup (155g) light brown sugar155 g
- 3 tbsp (57g) honey57 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 6 g
- 3/4 tsp baking soda≈ 4.5 g
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt≈ 1 g
- 2 tsp cornstarch≈ 5 g
- 1 1/3 cup (175g) all-purpose flour175 g
- 3 tbsp granulated sugar≈ 38 g
- 3 tbsp sparkling sugar (or more granulated sugar)≈ 38 g
- 3 tbsp rainbow sprinkles≈ 44 g
- 1/4 cup dry roasted salted peanuts, uniform finely chopped≈ 30 g
flour 175 gbatter 887 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 butter100% · 59th percentile · median 88%
- Butter62% · 51st percentile · median 61%
- Sugar164% · 92nd percentile · median 111%
- Egg29% · 47th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening2.6% · 52nd percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt0.6% · 32nd percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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