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Peanut Butter Cookies
Compared by formula.
Crunchy or creamy, fork-pressed or soft — and how much peanut butter a cookie can carry.
35 of 40 peanut butter cookie recipes rank on the formula map. The other 5 are flourless — a real style, but one our flour-based comparison cannot honestly place, so they appear unranked.
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Peanut Butter Cookies
from preppykitchen.com
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What cooks found out
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Halve the salt when tripling the baking powder to compensate.
Use a 1/4 cup scoop to portion cookie dough instead of a spoon.
Use brown butter in the dough.
Add more chocolate chips for better results.
Bake frozen dough slices at 350°F for 13 minutes.