Brown Butter Cookies with Mini Chocolate Chips
These soft and chewy brown butter cookies are loaded with mini chocolate chips and dark chocolate chunks. They are baked to perfection and then topped with sea salt. So delicious and easy to make.
Servings: 30 Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter
- 1 ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 large egg + 1 egg yolk, room temperature
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon sour cream
- 2 cups mini chocolate chips
- 1 cup dark chocolate chunks
- Sea salt, for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- In a frying pan, brown butter over medium heat, stirring constantly until butter turns an amber color. Remove from heat as soon as the butter starts to brown.
- Pour browned butter into a medium bowl and set aside to cool for 10-15 minutes.
- Add brown sugar and sugar into the brown butter. Stir until combined. Using an electric mixer, beat the egg, egg yolk, vanilla, and sour cream into the brown butter mixture until combined.
- In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt together. Gradually add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and beat on low speed until combined.
- Stir mini chocolate chips and dark chocolate chunks into cookie dough.
- Using a 1 inch cookie scoop, roll cookie dough and place on ungreased baking sheet(s).
- Bake for 10-11 minutes or until edges start to brown.
- Remove from the oven, sprinkle a bit of sea salt on each cookie, let sit on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes, then remove and place on a wire rack to cool.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Ambitious Kitchen. Check out all of the delicious recipes over on their site.