Small Batch Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
livewellbakeoften.com · 2026 · 7 cookies
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
No salt, unlike 83% of recipes and more egg than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No salt at all, where 83% of recipes use some (most of those 0.8 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
- More egg than 85% of recipes: 38% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (softened (28 grams; ¼ stick))28 g
- 3 tablespoons packed light brown sugar ((40 grams))40 g
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar ((12 grams))12 g
- 3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter ((47 grams; I used Jif avoid natural pb))47 g
- 1 large egg yolk (at room temperature)≈ 18 g
- ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract≈ 1.1 g
- ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour≈ 47 g
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- Tiny pinch of salt (optional)n/a
flour 47 gbatter 195 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% · 60th percentile · median 88%
- Butter60% · 40th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar111% · 50th percentile · median 111%
- Egg38% · 85th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening3.2% · 66th percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt0% · 8th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 9 to 11 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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