Ridiculously Easy Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies
thecafesucrefarine.com · 2022 · 24
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
Less peanut butter than 98% of recipes and less sugar than 96%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less peanut butter than 98% of recipes: 34% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 88%, about half as much.
- Less sugar than 96% of recipes: 53% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 111%, about half as much.
- No egg at all, where 92% of recipes use some (most of those 27 to 33% of the flour weight).
- No leavening at all, where 95% of recipes use some (most of those 1.9 to 3.6% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (8)
- ¾ cup very soft butter (I use salted butter)≈ 170 g
- ⅓ cup creamy peanut butter (not natural)≈ 86 g
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar≈ 133 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt≈ 1 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 4 ounces semi-sweet or milk chocolate bar113 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- sugar for sprinkling (You can use coarse sugar, Turbinado sugar, Demerara sugar or regular granulated sugar.)n/a
flour 250 gbatter 758 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 butter34% · 2nd percentile · median 88%
- Butter68% · 62nd percentile · median 61%
- Sugar53% · 3rd percentile · median 111%
- Egg0% · 4th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening0% · 2nd percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt0.4% · 26th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 15 to 20 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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