Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
I make these brown butter sugar cookies when I want a cookie that still feels simple but tastes like I spent more time on it than I did. The dough is drop-style, so there is no rolling pin, no cutter, and no careful icing plan. The browned butter does the heavy lifting. The first batch taught me to watch the skillet, not the clock. Brown butter can go from hazelnut-smelling and golden to bitter in the time it takes to rinse a measuring cup. Now I keep a heatproof bowl beside the stove and pour the butter out as soon as the browned bits look like toast crumbs.
- Time: 58 min
- Servings: 36
Source: Recipe Tweets
Ingredients
- unsalted butter
- all-purpose flour
- teaspoon baking soda
- teaspoon salt
- granulated sugar
- packed light or dark brown sugar
- large egg, at room temperature
- teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- sprinkles or nonpareils