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flannelgiraffe
replied to your post “Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies”

Oooh. Oooooooooooooooohhh. Six… dozen…? What a way to kick the bucket, that’s all I’m saying. Thank you! One thing tho: I tend to reduce the amount of sugar when I’m using American recipes because they usually produce much sweeter results than we are used to. How much do you think I could cut it back without destroying the balance of it?

Brown sugar usually has a more complex, less sweet-for-the-sake-of-sweet, taste than white sugar, so I’d suggest you could maybe cut the white sugar back to ¾ cup but add another TBS or so of brown sugar to start? Brown sugar’s also moister than white sugar (and that’s one of the things sugar adds to baked goods, more sugar = moister end product), so I wouldn’t recommend cutting any of it for that reason as well. If it’s still too sweet at that point, I’d start dialing back on both sugars (brown sugar is also denser than white sugar, so you don’t want to get the ratio too far out of whack) but start adding a touch of milk to compensate?