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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies have two special ingredients that give them a deep, rich flavor and will make you say “Wow!”
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
I love chocolate chip cookies and I am constantly trying new recipes. Only a select few actually make it to the blog. You can rest assured if I post a chocolate chip cookie recipe, it’s a good one.
This recipe has two special ingredients that sets it apart and makes it different than your average joe chocolate chip cookie recipe. The ingredients are brown butter and dark brown sugar. I am a huge fan of brown butter and the amazing flavor and richness it adds to a recipe.
Besides the flavor of these cookies I love the texture. You want to bake them until the edges are golden brown and beginning to set but the center of the cookie is still soft. This gives you a cookie that is crispy on the edges and nice and chewy in the middle – just what a chocolate chip cookie should be.
Ingredients
- Flour, all purpose
- Baking Soda
- Butter
- Sugar, granulated and dark brown
- Salt
- Vanilla Extract
- Egg and Extra Egg Yolk
- Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
How to Make Brown Butter
Here are the instructions for making brown butter for this cookie recipe. If you would like to use brown butter in other recipes, make sure to check out my full tutorial on how to make brown butter.
- Add butter into a skillet over medium high heat until melted.
- Continue cooking, stirring often until the butter turns golden brown. It will foam up and will get a nutty aroma.
- For this recipe, after the butter is browned, you add in some additional butter after it is removed from the heat and just stir it until it melts. You want the brown butter golden, not dark brown.
- Watch it carefully and stir often because it can become burned butter pretty quickly.
How To Make Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe has some unique directions for combining the butter with the sugar and egg. The mixing instructions really help the sugar to incorporate and give the cookie a nice texture.
- Brown the butter.
- Remove from heat and put into mixer bowl. Add in remaining butter and stir until melted.
- Add in sugars, salt and vanilla and stir to incorporate.
- Add egg and egg yolk and stir until smooth, about 30 seconds.
- Let mixture sand for 3 minutes. Then beat mixture for 30 seconds.
- Repeat process of resting and mixing 2 more times until mixture is thick, smooth and shiny.
- Stir in flour and baking soda and mix until combined.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Scoop dough into balls and place on parchment covered baking sheet.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes until cookies are golden brown and still puffy, edges will have begun to set but center will be soft.
- Cool cookies on rack.
Pretty much the only thing left to do is grab a nice glass of cold milk and enjoy these amazing cookies.
Check out more of my favorite brown butter recipes:
- Brown Butter Pasta
- Brown Butter Cake
- Roasted Brown Butter Brussel Sprouts
- Brown Butter Rice Krispie Treats
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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 C all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 14 Tbsp butter divided
- 1/2 C granulated sugar
- 3/4 C packed dark brown sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 1/2 C semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Cover baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Melt 10 Tbsp butter in a skillet over medium high heat until melted. Continue cooking and stirring the butter until it turns dark golden brown and has a nutty aroma. About 1-3 minutes.
- Remove from heat and put into mixer bowl. Add in remaining 4 Tbsp butter and stir until melted.
- Add in sugars, salt and vanilla and stir to incorporate.
- Add egg and egg yolk and stir until smooth, about 30 seconds.
- Let mixture stand for 3 minutes, then beat for 30 seconds.
- Repeat process of resting and mixing 2 more times until mixture is thick, smooth and shiny.
- Stir in flour and baking soda and mix until combined.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Scoop dough into balls and place on baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes until cookies are golden brown and still puffy, edges will have begun to set but center will be soft.
- Cool cookies on rack.
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Maggie says
This recipe looks yummy. Can’t wait to try it. Just wanted to point out that you forgot to mention adding the baking soda to the flour. Just sayin’. 🙂
Dianna says
If you read #9 in the directions, you will find that it says to add the flour and the baking soda…Just sayin’