Comments on: Pan-banging Peanut Butter Cookies

By: Mamie

Mamie — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:10:36 +0000

These were good cookies but they didn’t taste like peanut butter at all 🙁

By: Sarah Kieffer

Sarah Kieffer — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:03:40 +0000

In reply to Bree.

Hi Bree – the cookies are meant to spread quite a bit! They are supposed to be very large, thin cookies with crisp, wrinkly edges. But the dough shouldn’t have been so soft you can’t roll it. What kind of peanut butter did you use? And did you weight your ingredients? It sounds like maybe there wasn’t enough flour in the cookies?

By: Bree

Bree — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:42:16 +0000

my cookies really spread, any idea why? the dough did feel quite soft, so soft i had to put in fridge before i could roll
into bowls? when your dough is recognizably to soft , what do you do? add more flour?

By: Penny

Penny — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:15:45 +0000

Great cookie! I agree with another comment that the peanut butter flavor could have been stronger but I also will take the texture over the more pronounced flavor. I can’t wait to try your other pan-banging cookie recipes!

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:55:53 +0000

In reply to Sarah Kieffer.

I made them last night and they were amazing! While I think that a touch more peanut butter flavor would have been cool, the texture was sublime and so the trade-off of a more muted (but still very much there) peanut butter flavor was absolutely worth it! Thanks so much for this recipe cause it will definitely end up in my forever recipe box and I’m planning to annotate the recipe in 100 Cookies book to note the changes from here.

By: Sarah Kieffer

Sarah Kieffer — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 01:16:38 +0000

In reply to Sarah Kieffer. It's correct! These cookies are supposed to spread, which is why they have so much butter. And the peanut butter flavor does come through.

By: Sarah Kieffer

Sarah Kieffer — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 01:13:14 +0000

In reply to Karen P. Hi Karen! It's 1/4 cup [50 g] of brown sugar. Sorry about the mistake! I just fixed the recipe.

By: Karen P

Karen P — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:27:58 +0000

Hi. The standard weight of one cup of brown sugar is 200 g.
So, 1/2 cup would be 100 g. In this recipe, it says 1/2 cup brown sugar (50g).
Which is it…..1/2 cup by volume, which would be 100 g by weight.?……
.or…..50 g by weight, which would be 1/4 cup by volume?
This recipe looks wonderful and i am suddenly craving a peanut butter cookie .
Thanks,
Karen

By: Sarah Kieffer

Sarah Kieffer — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:13:50 +0000

In reply to Erin.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:04:47 +0000

I don’t have a stand mixer. Can I still make these?