Looking for more cookie recipes to add to your holiday baking list? You’ve come to the right place! This Salted Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies recipe is SO GOOD that I think I need to make all my chocolate chips cookies with brown butter from now on. Don’t be surprised if your cookies are gone first during the holidays. Yep, they are that good.
Not only does the brown butter make these cookies fabulous but you don’t need a big kitchen mixer or even have to chill these cookies so they are SUPER EASY.
If you’d like to check out some of our other cookie recipes, may I suggest… Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cookies ,Golden Oreo White Chip Cookies, Peppermint Bark Cookies, Iced Oatmeal Cookies, Mini Butterfinger Cookies, Caramel Apple Cookies, Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies, Cookie Dough Cookies, Blue Monster Cookies, Dark Dream Cookies, Sea Salt Toffee Cookies, Rocky Road Cookies, Cornbread Cookies, , Crumbl Turtle Cookies, Crumbl Dirt Cake Cookies, Mini Twix, or the Churro Cookies.
HOW DO I BROWN BUTTER?
Haven’t browned butter before? A little nervous you are going to mess it up. Nonsense. It’s easy to do and once you do it a couple times, you’ll be an old pro. All you have to do it heat up your butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Once the butter starts to boil, you’ll want to stir frequently as the butter goes through a couple stages. The butter will get foamy. Be patient. You are not done yet and you need to keep stirring. You are looking for the butter to turn a deep amber color. From start to finish, it only takes about 5-6 minutes to brown butter. When the butter starts to turn that deep amber color and smells buttery and nutty, it’s done. Remove from heat. This recipe requires you to then let the butter cool for 20 minutes.
Let’s get to the entire recipe, shall we?
RECIPE VIDEO
SALTED BROWN BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIE INGREDIENTS
For full information on ingredients and quantities, please see the recipe card below.
HOW TO MAKE BROWN BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use parchment paper or a silpat mat to line a baking sheet.
2. Heat up the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Once the butter starts to boil, you’ll want to stir frequently as the butter goes through a couple stages. The butter will get foamy. Be patient. You are not done yet and you need to keep stirring. You are looking for the butter to turn a deep amber color. From start to finish, it only takes about 5-6 minutes to brown butter. When the butter starts to turn that deep amber color and smells buttery and nutty, it’s done. Remove from heat. Let the butter cool for 20 minutes.
3. Add the brown sugar, granulated sugar, egg, vanilla, baking soda and salt to a large mixing bowl. Pour the cooled butter into the same bowl and hand mix with a spatula or a large spoon.
4. Add the flour into the bowl and continue to stir until the dough is complete mixed. Mix in the chocolate chunks.
5. Scoop out about 2 TBSPs of dough for smaller cookies (or 1/4 cup dough for even BIGGER cookies). and place dough balls on prepared pan (12 cookies to a pan if small cookies and 6 to a pan if BIG cookies).
6. Bake for about 10-11 minutes. Remove from oven. Sprinkle with sea salt. Let cool on tray for 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to cooling rack. NOTE: Baking time will be longer if you make BIG cookies.
Salted Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup chocolate chunks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use parchment paper or a silpat mat to line a baking sheet.
- Heat up the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Once the butter starts to boil, you'll want to stir frequently as the butter goes through a couple stages. The butter will get foamy. Be patient. You are not done yet and you need to keep stirring. You are looking for the butter to turn a deep amber color. From start to finish, it only takes about 5-6 minutes to brown butter. When the butter starts to turn that deep amber color and smells buttery and nutty, it's done. Remove from heat. Let the butter cool for 20 minutes.
- Add the brown sugar, granulated sugar, egg, vanilla, baking soda and salt to a large mixing bowl. Pour the cooled butter into the same bowl and hand mix with a spatula or a large spoon.
- Add the flour into the bowl and continue to stir until the dough is complete mixed. Mix in the chocolate chunks.
- Scoop out about 2 TBSPs of dough for smaller cookies (or 1/4 cup dough for even BIGGER cookies). and place dough balls on prepared pan (12 cookies to a pan if small cookies and 6 to a pan if BIG cookies).
- Bake for about 10-11 minutes. Remove from oven. Sprinkle with sea salt. Let cool on tray for 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to cooling rack. NOTE: Baking time will be longer if you make BIG cookies.