Peanut Butter Cookies
theviewfromgreatisland.com · 2021 · 2 dozen+ cookies
Against 326 peanut butter cookie recipes
No salt, unlike 83% of recipes and more leavening than 87%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 326 peanut butter cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No salt at all, where 83% of recipes use some (most of those 0.8 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
- More leavening than 87% of recipes: 4.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.5%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 134% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 111%.
Ingredients (11)
- 2/3 cup creamy peanut butter (I like Jiff)≈ 172 g
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed≈ 110 g
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar≈ 100 g
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature≈ 57 g
- 1/4 cup shortening (I use Crisco butter flavored shortening)≈ 51 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 3/4 tsp baking soda≈ 4.5 g
- 1/2 tsp baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 1/4 tsp salt Note: leave this out if you use salted butter.≈ 1.2 g
- 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour (use the fluff, scoop and level method for accuracy)≈ 156 g
flour 156 gbatter 709 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 butter110% · 67th percentile · median 88%
- Butter70% · 67th percentile · median 61%
- Sugar134% · 78th percentile · median 111%
- Egg32% · 66th percentile · median 30%
- Leavening4.4% · 88th percentile · median 2.5%
- Salt0% · 8th percentile · median 0.9%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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