Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Key to a great chocolate chip cookie? More brown sugar than white and the extra effort of creating browned butter. Yum!
Servings: 29
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place one stick of butter in a small saucepan. Heat over medium heat, allowing butter to melt.
- Continue to stir until butter just browns, approximately 7 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- Cream remaining stick of butter with sugars.
- Scrap browned butter into bowl, getting all the browned bits. Mix well.
- Add eggs and vanilla. Mix.
- Combine flour, salt, and baking soda.
- Stir into wet ingredients, until just mixed. Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts.
- Refrigerate for 15-30 minutes, allowing the dough to firm up a bit.
- Drop cookies by the tablespoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 9-12 minutes, until the edges are crisp. And boom, the perfect chocolate chip cookies.