Classic Peanut Butter Cookies
PJ Hamel · kingarthurbaking.com · about 2 dozen cookies
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
Less butter than 87% 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.
- Less butter than 87% of recipes: 34% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
- More salt than 84% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.9%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1/3 cup (61g) vegetable shortening or 8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter, for softer cookies61 g
- 1/2 cup (99g) granulated sugar99 g
- 1/2 cup (106g) light brown sugar, packed106 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 4.2 g
- 3/4 cup (198g) peanut butter*198 g
- 1 1/2 cups (180g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour180 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt≈ 3 g
flour 180 gbatter 707 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 butter110% · 67th percentile · median 88%
- Butter34% · 12th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar114% · 58th percentile · median 111%
- Egg28% · 44th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening3.3% · 68th percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt1.7% · 86th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 12 to 16 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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