(The Actual Best) Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
sugarspunrun.com · 2026 · 18 large cookies
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
More salt than 96% of recipes and more butter than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 96% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.9%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More butter than 84% of recipes: 76% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
- Peanut butter in the middle half of recipes: 69% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 88%.
Ingredients (11)
- 10 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened to room temperature≈ 142 g
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter¹≈ 129 g
- ⅔ cup light brown sugar, tightly packed≈ 147 g
- ¼ cup granulated sugar≈ 50 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour≈ 188 g
- 1 Tablespoon cornstarch≈ 8 g
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda≈ 4.5 g
- ¾ teaspoon salt≈ 4.5 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Additional granulated sugar for rollingn/a
flour 188 gbatter 724 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 butter69% · 24th percentile · median 88%
- Butter76% · 85th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar105% · 45th percentile · median 111%
- Egg27% · 36th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening2.4% · 47th percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt2.4% · 97th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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