Sourdough Peanut Butter Cookies
sugarspunrun.com · 2025 · 30 cookies
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
Less egg than 90% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 90% of recipes: 12% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%, about half as much.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (12)
- 1 cup unsalted butter (melted and cooled until no longer warm to the touch )≈ 227 g
- 1 cup light brown sugar (firmly packed)≈ 220 g
- ¾ cup granulated sugar≈ 150 g
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter≈ 258 g
- ½ cup sourdough discard≈ 120 g
- 2 large egg yolks≈ 36 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour≈ 313 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- ½ teaspoon baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- ¾ teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Coarse sugar for sprinkling (see note)n/a
flour 313 gbatter 1345 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 butter83% · 42nd percentile · median 88%
- Butter73% · 77th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar118% · 62nd percentile · median 111%
- Egg12% · 9th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening2.7% · 55th percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt1.4% · 75th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 8 to 10 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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