Super Soft Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies {Egg-Free!}

Mel · melskitchencafe.com · 2017 · 36 Cookies (2 to 3 Dozen Depending on Size)

Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes

No egg, unlike 92% of recipes and less leavening than 91%.

How it compares

Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.

No egg at all, where 92% of recipes use some (most of those 27 to 33% of the flour weight).
Less leavening than 91% of recipes: 1.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.5%, about half as much.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

6 ounces cream cheese (softened to room temperature)170 g
12 tablespoons salted butter (melted and cooled (still pourable but not warm to the touch))≈ 170 g
1 cup creamy peanut butter≈ 258 g
1 cup lightly packed light brown sugar≈ 220 g
1/2 cup granulated sugar≈ 100 g
2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour≈ 281 g
1 1/2 to 2 cups chocolate chips or chocolate chunks (can sub in part of the chocolate chips with peanut butter chips)≈ 280 g

flour 281 gbatter 1494 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 326 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: peanut butter, butter, sugar, egg, leavening, salt.