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King Bakery Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

The full batch is the source of truth. The small batch is exactly ⅛ of it.

Ingredient	Full	Small
Brown Sugar	1814g	227g
Sugar	1814g	227g
Shortening	1814g	227g
Peanut Butter	1814g	227g
Eggs	946mL (16 large)	118mL (2 large)
Cake Flour	2268g	283g
Baking Soda	70.9g	8.9g

How to Make

Cream the brown sugar, sugar, shortening and peanut butter together — but not too much, or the cookies will spread flat and thin. About 2 minutes at just above low speed.

Add the eggs and let them mix in.

Add the cake flour on slow speed, then the baking soda.

Bake at 190 °C (original: 375 °F). Roughly 10–12 minutes. Don’t let the edges get properly brown.

Makes

• Full batch → 28 dozen
• Small batch → 3½ dozen

Notes

• One figure differs from the card: the small batch’s baking soda was written as 2 tsp (≈9.6g). Exactly ⅛ of the full batch is 8.9g, which is what’s used above. Everything else in the small batch scaled exactly.
• The four base ingredients are equal weights — 4 lb each at full size, ½ lb each small. Easy to remember, easy to scale to anything.
• Cake flour, not all-purpose. Low protein is part of why these stay tender despite the long list of stiff ingredients. Substituting will change the texture.
• Soda only, no baking powder — it’s reacting with the brown sugar’s acidity, and it’s what gives the cracked top.
• The undermixing instruction is the whole recipe. Overcreaming aerates the fat, and aerated fat collapses in the oven into a thin, greasy cookie.

Appendix — Original card, as written

4 lbs brown sugar
4 lbs sugar
4 lbs shortening
4 lbs peanut butter
mix that all up - cream it but not too much or they will get flat and thin.
like 2 minutes on "just above low speed"
1 qt eggs (16 large) . let those mix in
5 lbs cake flour. Mix it in on slow speed
2.5 oz baking soda
Makes 28 dozen
Bake at 375 degrees. Don't let them get real brown on the edges.
maybe 10 or 12 minutes.

Small Batch:
1/2 lb brown sugar
1/2 lb sugar
1/2 lb shortening
1/2 lb peanut butter
2 eggs
10 oz cake flour
2 tsp baking soda

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