Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Please allow time for the cookies to sit overnight – for 24 to 36 hours. Please click on ‘Related Blog Post’ entry for the more detailed recipe. Enjoy!

1. Brown the butter. In order to brown the butter, you’ll want to cut the butter into small pieces and place in a small non-reactive pan. Put on medium high heat and loosely cover (only one of the five times I cooked it did it splatter, but better to cover it and be safe). Stir every couple minutes or so. The butter will melt, then foam – when it foams you can remove the foam, or if you are lazy like me, just let it be. Once it starts to brown, watch carefully! It can go from brown to black quickly. Once it has the smell and had darkened in color, remove from heat, being careful to not let the brown butter solids turn black. Let cool to room temperature (sticking it in the fridge helps speed the process).

2. Combine room temperature browned butter with sugar (cane + brown). Beat for five minutes until sugar has started to dissolve.

3. Add one large egg and the teaspoon of vanilla and mix to incorporate.

4. Sift together flour, soda, and salt.

5. Add 1/4 a cup of flour mixture at a time to the batter. Scrape down with a spatula as needed.

6. Add coffee granuals and flaxseed, mixing until just combined.

7. Place in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes, until slightly chilled. (This is so the chocolate doesn’t melt into the batter)

8. While batter is cooling, chop chocolate bars finely. (bars work better than chips – you want a variety of sizes of chocolate pieces).

9. Remove batter from fridge and add chocolate. Mix by hand.

10. Shape cookies (as directed in blog link)

11. Place shaped cookies back in the fridge for 24 to 36 hours. (Both steps 10 and 11 are extremely important – please don’t skip!)

12. Bake on an ungreased pan at 175° C (or about 350° F) for 18 – 25 minutes.

18-20 for soft cookies, and 22-25 for crisp, chewy cookies. Allow to cool on pan before removing with a spatula.

Now it’s reward time. Grab a huge glass of milk (why keep refilling it?), a plate of cookies, and let them change your cookie world forever.