The Best Peanut Butter Cookies
Mel · melskitchencafe.com · 2015 · 36 Cookies
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
More peanut butter than 88% of recipes and more sugar than 81%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More peanut butter than 88% of recipes: 165% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 88%.
- More sugar than 81% of recipes: 138% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 111%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (10)
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 313 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 cup salted butter, softened to room temperature≈ 227 g
- 2 cups creamy peanut butter (see note)≈ 516 g
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar≈ 330 g
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar≈ 100 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
flour 313 gbatter 1603 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 butter165% · 89th percentile · median 88%
- Butter73% · 77th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar138% · 82nd percentile · median 111%
- Egg32% · 66th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening3.4% · 71st percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt1% · 56th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 11 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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