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Brown Butter Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

October 27, 2017

I look for any excuse to bake. I’ll sign up for any bake sale or office party potluck if it means I can bake something. I often use my Small Group and Book Club as unsuspecting guinea pigs for my new recipes. For instance, my Book Club was the taste testers for these brown butter chocolate chunk cookies. I knew they were a hit when i walked in with 18 cookies and left with none. There were only 6 of us. We each had 3 cookies. 

Yes, they were that good! I couldn’t wait to share the recipe on the blog.


Brown butter is a beautiful thing! It’s just melted butter that has slightly….well….browned, which creates this amazingly rich flavor. The butter no longer tastes like butter. It takes on a nutty, toffee-like flavor that perfectly compliments…well…everything. 


Brown butter can be used in place of normal butter in lots of different recipes. For these cookies, I mixed in the liquefied butter just like I would a stick of softened butter. My only tip is to wait until it cools just a bit. You don’t want to mix the eggs into hot butter. 

Once the eggs vanilla, flour, and other dry ingredients are mixed in, it’s just like your average cookie dough.


95% of the time I would use chocolate chips in my cookies. 5% of the time I don’t have chocolate chips on hand. But it reminds me how great chocolate chunks are in cookies! There are small pieces that just mix right into the dough and the larger pieces that create melted pockets of chocolate all through the cookie. 

There are two tips I have learned over the years to make excellent chocolate chip (or chocolate chunk) cookies. The first is to freeze the balls of dough before baking. 

To accomplish this, I scoop out my dough on to a small baking sheet and then pop it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes.

Once they are frozen, I move them to a bigger sheet and give them a bit more space. Then pop them in the oven.

The second tip is to sprinkle the unbaked cookie dough balls with flakey sea salt. Seriously, if there is one thing you take away from this post its this! Sea salt and any chocolate chip cookie takes it to the next level.

Out of the oven they look fairly unassuming, like ordinary CCCs. But these brown butter chocolate chunk cookies are not ordinary. They are extraordinary! Rhe best part is, people won’t really know why they are different, but they will definitely taste the difference.

The brown butter clearly sets these cookies apart, adding a subtle nutty flavor. Then the large chunks melted chocolate lightly dusted with sea salt just push these cookies over the edge. 

Promise me, just make them, give them to your friends, and then sit back and bask in the glory that will inevitably be rained down upon you.

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Tagged: baking, brown butter, chocolate chip cookies, cookies, dark chocolate, sea salt

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie

June 11, 2014

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A few months ago, I had the bright idea to find the best chocolate chip cookie recipe. I was going to create this bracket, and pin one recipe against another until I found my all time favorite chocolate chip cookie. Come, to think of it, it might have been around March Madness, which would explain a lot.

I made two recipes, and didn’t get a whole lot further. Partially because I got lazy and partially because I found this article on the Serious Eats Food Lab. Essentially, Kenji spent a whole lot of time trying to do the same thing I was going to do, but a lot more scientifically. I did make his recipe, and yes, it is pretty great. But, of course, I had to try to make it my own using some of the information I gathered from his article.

Chocolate-Chip-Cookie-4One of main differences in Kenji’s recipe versus a typical recipe is that he uses brown butter, which give the cookies a bit of nuttiness. Well, browning butter tests my patience, so instead I added a touch of espresso powder (which I use in a lot of my chocolate recipes). It doesn’t make the cookies taste like coffee, instead they take on a nutty, maple-y flavor that really adds some depth.

Chocolate-Chip-Cookie-5But like Kenji, I did add sea salt to the tops of my cookies. If you take only one thing away from this post, please add sea salt to your cookies. Sea salt takes a normal chocolate chip cookie and elevates it.

Do you have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe? What is your “secret ingredient”?

 

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Tagged: chocolate, chocolate chips, cookie, sea salt

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Hey there, I'm Lindsey. I'm a number cruncher by day and a home cook and baker by night. While I love to eat healthy and find fresh and healthy alternatives for my favorite foods, I will never turn down dessert! Life is all about moderation, right?

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