The Best Peanut Butter Cookies
fifteenspatulas.com · 2023 · 24 cookies
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
More salt than 93% of recipes and more leavening than 82%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 93% of recipes: 2.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.9%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More leavening than 82% of recipes: 3.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.5%.
- Less egg than 76% of recipes: 24% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%.
- Peanut butter in the middle half of recipes: 121% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 88%.
Ingredients (10)
- 7.5 ounces by weight all purpose flour ((1.5 cups measured))213 g
- 1 tsp baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1/2 tsp baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 3/4 tsp salt≈ 4.5 g
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened)≈ 114 g
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar≈ 100 g
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar*≈ 110 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter**≈ 258 g
flour 213 gbatter 861 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 butter121% · 73rd percentile · median 88%
- Butter53% · 31st percentile · median 61%
- Sugar99% · 38th percentile · median 111%
- Egg24% · 24th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening3.9% · 83rd percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt2.1% · 95th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 13 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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