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These Brown Butter Cookies are amazing. The brown butter frosting is the perfect way to dress up a sugar cookie and give it a deeper and richer flavor.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Brown butter can transform your recipes and give your baked goods amazing flavor. It adds a depth of flavor and a subtle nuttiness to food that is delicious!
The cookie is a nice soft sugar cookie. I found that this cookie was actually softer and just as good the second day. I don’t know about the third day because we ate them all before then.
Ingredients
- Flour
- Butter, softened
- Sugar, granulated sugar and powdered sugar
- Egg Yolks
- Heavy Cream
- Salt
- Baking Soda
- Vanilla Extract
How to Make Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
- Mix butter and sugar together in a bowl
- Add in egg yolks, salt, soda and vanilla
- Stir in flour and mix until combined
- Chill your dough. It only needs to chill for about an hour to help it firm up a bit.
- Roll dough into round balls. I like to use my favorite cookie scoop for this to make sure I get nice even sized cookies.
- Dip the bottom of a glass into sugar, get it wet first so the sugar sticks.Â
- Use the sugared bottom of the glass to press down on your ball of dough to flatten the cookie.
- Bake the cookies on a parchment covered baking sheet at 350 degrees F for 8-10 minutes or just until the edges begin to turn golden brown.
How To Make Frosting
But what makes this cookie so good and what caused me to eat way too many of them is the browned butter frosting!
- Brown Butter in a small pan over medium heat, watch closely. It will foam up and then begin to turn golden brown, flecks will appear at the bottom of the pan.
- Stir often to make sure it browns evenly
- Remove from heat and cool slightly
- Add in powdered sugar, vanilla and cream
- Beat in mixer on medium high until it has a creamy texture
- Frost cooled cookies
If you are a frosting fan like I am, you are going to want to pile the frosting onto these cookies. I actually got out my cake decorating tips and piped it right on! Not only do you get more frosting that way but it looks prettier.
Frequently Asked Questions
When stored in an airtight container they will last 3-4 days. They do not need to be refrigerated. I find the cookies actually taste better the second day. They can also be frozen for 2-3 months. Check out details on how to freeze cookies.
I have a detailed step by step tutorial on how to make brown butter that you can follow.
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Browned Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/3 cup flour
Browned Butter Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter
- 4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup heavy cream or 1/2 and 1/2
Instructions
Browned Butter Cookies:
- Mix butter and sugar together in a bowl
- Add in egg yolks, salt, soda and vanilla
- Stir in flour and mix until combined
- Chill dough on a cookie sheet for about 1 hour in the refrigerator
- Form dough into one inch balls
- Dip the bottom of a drinking glass into sugar and then press the ball of dough flat (about 1/4 inch) Bake cookies on an ungreased cookie at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until lightly golden
- Allow to cool on cookie sheet for a minute and then remove to a cooling rack
Browned Butter Frosting:
- In a small pan brown butter over medium heat, watch closely
- It will foam up and then begin to turn golden brown, flecks will appear at the bottom of the pan.
- Stir often to make sure it browns evenly
- Remove from heat and cool slightly
- Add in powdered sugar, vanilla and cream
- Beat in mixer on medium high until it has a creamy texture
- Frost cooled cookies
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Jessica says
I am a TOTAL sucker for anything ‘browned butter’ too! Looks delicious. 🙂
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Denise E says
these look great, I will have to give them a try