Also, try these miso chocolate chip cookies for a fun twist on the traditional. Great question! Brown butter is when you gently cook butter so that it brings out a wonderful nutty flavor and turns a deep amber color. You can use regular butter to achieve this. When it comes to brown butter sea salt chocolate chip cookies, the brown butter is a worthy extra step that brings warmth, toffee, and caramel flavors to your cookies.
How to brown butter for chocolate chip cookies
All you need to do is:
Salted butter: Yes, you’ll need 1 whole cup of salted butter for these beauties, but it’s totally worth it! That buttery, rich flavor won’t let you down. All-purpose flour, sea salt, and baking soda: These are all standard ingredients in any cookie recipe; they’ll make up the base of your dry ingredients. Granulated sugar + brown sugar: Use both kinds of sugar for sweetness, but also to enhance the caramel, toffee flavor. Eggs, cold water, and vanilla extract: These will make up your wet ingredients, which you’ll add to your brown butter mix. Dark chocolate: Go for the dark variety, cut or chopped into pieces, to add a needed deep, bitter taste to the otherwise sweet cookie. Flaky sea salt: Sprinkle flaky sea salt on top of the cookies once they’re baked. It will bring out and complement the chocolate chunks!
Although this recipe could be referred to as the best chocolate chip cookie recipe out there, you can absolutely play around with it to find your happy place. Here are some ideas:
Nuts: This recipe is naturally nut-free, so perhaps a good option for school-aged kids. That said, if adding some nuts sounds like perfection to you, go for it! Chopped walnuts or pecans would be great additions. Dried fruit: If you want to add some natural sweetness dried cranberries, raisins, or crasins would be a nice touch. Coconut: You can add some shredded coconut to this recipe, just know that you will have to adjust for it in your dry ingredients. Ice cream: These cookies are fairly thin, however, no one would be opposed to sliding some ice cream between them. All you’ll need is a napkin! Try this toasted coconut ice cream or go wild with this beer ice cream!
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