Hot Honey Peanut Butter Cookies
Taylor Ann Spencer · delish.com · 2026 · 18 serving(s)
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
More sugar than 99% of recipes and more salt than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 99% of recipes: 225% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 111%, about twice as much.
- More salt than 84% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.9%.
- Less leavening than 76% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.5%.
- Peanut butter in the middle half of recipes: 72% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 88%.
Ingredients (10)
- 3/4 c. (150 g) packed light brown sugar150 g
- 1/2 c. (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened≈ 114 g
- 3/4 tsp. kosher salt≈ 3 g
- 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper≈ 2.5 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1/2 c. creamy peanut butter≈ 129 g
- 1/4 c. hot honey, plus more for drizzling≈ 85 g
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 1/2 c. (180 g) all-purpose flour180 g
- 1/2 c. honey-roasted peanuts, plus more for topping≈ 170 g
flour 180 gbatter 886 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 butter72% · 27th percentile · median 88%
- Butter63% · 53rd percentile · median 61%
- Sugar225% · 100th percentile · median 111%
- Egg28% · 44th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening1.7% · 21st percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt1.7% · 86th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 350°F
- Time
- 11 to 13 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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