Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

OneandahalfSlices has no shortage of chocolate chip cookie recipes – we’ve got your vegan chocolate chip cookies, your authoritative chocolate chip cookies (coming soon), and now what? Brown butter? What’s it for and is it worth it?

The short answer is yes. Browning your butter gives your dough or batter this deep earthy, nutty quality that is… delicious.

Okay, so is it difficult?

Absolutely not. Turns out the whole “brown butter” craze simply requires melting your butter stovetop until it begins to bubble, reduce, and turn – you guessed it – brown.

So why wouldn’t you brown your butter?

At this point, I’m not sure. I’ll be browning my butter until further notice. In some recipes, like my French Madeleines, it is integral to the flavor of the batter, but in other cases (like chocolate chip cookies), it’s just plain tasty. This recipe yields about a dozen crispy cookie that is extra sweet and super flavorful.

what you need

1 stick of butter

1/3 cup dark brown sugar

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

3/4 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 1/2 cup chocolate chips of choice

how to make it

Brown your butter. Place butter in a small saucepan stovetop over medium-high heat. Once it begins to bubble and chirp, stir it occasionally to ensure it does not burn. Remove butter from stove and place in separate container to cool once it turns caramel brown in color.

Mix the sugars into the melted butter with a whisk. Add the egg and the vanilla extract, and whisk another ~3 minutes.

Add all the dry ingredients and combine with a rubber spatula until just mixed through. Do not overwork your dough or mix everything to death. There is no need. You’ll only give yourself a hand cramp.

Finally, add the chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, or whatever cacao varietal you have chosen. Scoop the cookies into 12 or so balls (don’t flatten these – they will spread out on their own) and cook on 350 for 11-12 minutes, cool on wire rack, and enjoy whilst warm!

JT Chocolate Chip Cookies

A few years back, thanks in large part to the New York Times, the baking world coalesced around Manhattan-based Chocolatier Jacques Torres’ chocolate chip cookie recipe, with its large, angular baking chips and its flat, disc-like appearance. And they were not wrong. Jacques Torres cookies are everything a cookie should be – large, crispy, with a perfectly balanced flavor and excellent chip-to-dough ratio. No complaints. Well, one complaint. Two flours are required, neither of which you are already likely to own. But if you make these a few times a year to freeze single-serving-style, it’s worth it to go the extra mile on the flour front. Bottom line, this is a reliable cookie that will not disappoint.

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Oatmeal Everything Cookies

This is a super versatile, unique, hearty cookie recipe with very low sugar. They’ve got just about everything you could want in a cookie – coconut, dried fruit, nuts, seeds, chocolate chips. You can swap in and out things you may prefer – like pecans or chopped hazelnuts, different kinds of chocolate chips, etc. You could probably cut the sugar more if you used, say, golden raisins or dried blueberries, which are quite a bit sweeter than the cranberries. The higher the cacao percentage of your chocolate, also, the less sweet the cookies will be. I’ve made them with 100% bars before all chipped up and the rich, cacao-forward flavor is incredible. In short, get fancy. Play around. Make these your weeknight go-to cookie. And keep some in the freezer for late night cravings or, idk, breakfast… 🍪

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Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ah, the elusive and controversial – almost biblical – chocolate chip cookie. There are sure to be several chocolate chip cookie posts on this blog before we are through. For a while there, I was captivated by the dueling flours of Jacques Torres chocolate chips cookies, popularized by the New York Times. I still maintain that the best chocolate chip cookie I have ever had is found in central Manhattan on the counters of Culture Espresso. But I am happy to say that my current favorite chocolate chip cookie is vegan! Accidentally, as it turns out. I did not make this recipe because it was vegan, but it turned out to be one of the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever tasted.

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