Death by Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2012 · 24 cookies

Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes

More egg than 99% of recipes and more sugar than 90%.

How it compares

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

More egg than 99% of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%, about 2.5 times as much.
More sugar than 90% of recipes: 160% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 111%.
More peanut butter than 83% of recipes: 144% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 88%.
More leavening than 78% of recipes: 3.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.5%.

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

1 cup (125g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)125 g
1/4 cup (21g) natural unsweetened or dutch-process cocoa powder21 g
1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
1/4 teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, chopped (I used 2 Ghirardelli chocolate bars)227 g
2 large eggs≈ 100 g
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
5 Tablespoons (71g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature71 g
3/4 cup (150g) packed light brown sugar150 g
1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar50 g
1 cup (180g) semi-sweet chocolate chips180 g
1 cup (180g) peanut butter chips180 g

flour 125 gbatter 1114 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.