Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 2 dozen
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter; 1-3/4 cups packed brown sugar; 2 large eggs, room temperature; 1 large egg yolk, room temperature; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 3 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Total Time Prep: 25 min. Bake: 15 min./batch + cooling

Yield 2 dozen

Test Kitchen Approved

This brown butter chocolate chip cookies recipe, made with brown sugar and slowly simmered butter, is an amazing upgrade to regular chocolate chip cookies. You may never go back to the classic cookie again.

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter
1-3/4 cups packed brown sugar
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 large egg yolk, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

Place butter in a small heavy saucepan. Cook over medium heat until golden brown, 5-7 minutes; cool slightly.
Beat brown sugar and eggs in a large bowl until blended. Beat in browned butter slowly; then vanilla.
Combine the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder; gradually add to brown sugar mixture and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop by quarter cupfuls 2 in. apart onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake at 350° until golden brown, 13-15 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Nutrition Facts

1 cookie: 262 calories, 13g fat (7g saturated fat), 44mg cholesterol, 184mg sodium, 37g carbohydrate (23g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein.

This is no ordinary chocolate chip cookie recipe. One extra step—browning the butter—takes these chocolate chip cookies to a whole new level. These are my mom's favorite dessert, and they always remind me of home when I bake them. —Faith Ashley Mueller, Denton, Texas

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