Sharing our favorite brown butter chocolate chip cookies today! My Salted Brown Butter Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies are perfect for your cookie parties and celebrations!
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Oh for the love of brown butter chocolate chip cookies. I’ve been teasing with these cookies on Instagram for a good week or so. I am happy to be sharing my recipe with you today. All of my favorite things in this cookies. A little sweet, a little salty and lots of chocolate. Hop on over to the kitchen and try these for yourself!
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Your line up for the day. Make sure you have cake flour and some fleur de sel sea salt on hand for these.
How To Make Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and line a large baking sheet with a silpat liner or parchment paper.
- Place butter into a small saucepan over medium heat. Swirl and heat until deep golden brown. Remove heat and let cool for 5 minutes.
- Place browned butter and little bits from the pan into a stand mixer along with the brown and granulated sugar. Beat to combine then add egg and vanilla beating to combine. Add ap flour, cake flour, pudding mix, baking soda, corn starch, salt and chocolate chips. Mix on low until just combined.
- With a medium cookie scoop, place dough onto prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Sprinkle each cookie with a pinch of fleur de sel sea salt and bake for 10 minutes, until baked through. Remove and let cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. Serve and enjoy.
Time to brown the butter. Melt it over medium heat swirling often until it turns a gorgeous deep golden brown. You’ll see brown bits at the bottom of the pan. That’s a good thing.
How To Brown Buter
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Place butter in small saucepan over medium-low heat. Swirl and melt completely. Butter will boil. Continue to swirl and cook until butter turns golden brown and brown bits start forming on bottom of pan. Once butter has a nutty scent and is deep golden brown, remove from heat and transfer to a heat proof bowl. Make sure you spoon out all little black bits from the saucepan. Let brown butter cool at least 15 minutes before using in a cookie recipe.
Let the butter cool for 5 minutes then beat it with your sugars, egg and vanilla.
Dry ingredients please.
Dark chocolate chips!
I will not admit how much dough I consumed.
Scoop onto your baking sheet.
This fleur de sel sea salt is amazing if you can find it. If not, kosher salt will do the trick too 🙂
Just a tiny pinch of sea salt on top.
If you like your cookies a bit more flat, press the dough down with your hand before baking. I was in the mood for a thick round cookie today.
Salted Brown Butter Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cake flour
- 2 tablespoons instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon corn starch
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/4 cups dark chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon fleur de sel sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a large baking sheet with a silpat liner or parchment paper.
- Place butter into a small saucepan over medium heat. Swirl and heat until deep golden brown. Remove heat and let cool for 5 minutes.
- Place browned butter and little bits from the pan into a stand mixer along with the brown and granulated sugar. Beat to combine then add egg and vanilla beating to combine. Add ap flour, cake flour, pudding mix, baking soda, corn starch, salt and chocolate chips. Mix on low until just combined.
- With a medium cookie scoop, place dough onto prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Sprinkle each cookie with a pinch of fleur de sel sea salt and bake for 10 minutes, until baked through. Remove and let cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. Serve and enjoy.
I made these tonight and I can say, without a doubt, that they are the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever made! Thanks so much!
Oh. My.
Just took these out of the oven. you were right: texture and flavor are spot on! I believe anything can be made better with brown butter and that is certainly the case with these cookies. Heavenly!!
Thank you!
Wooooow, seem very specials!
you had me until pudding mix…
I’ll try just browning the butter of my tried and true chocolate chip cookie recipe and adding some sea salt
The grocery stores around here all have several types of sea salt – the local chains as well as Trader Joe’s’ and Whole Foods for those looking. Otherwise try Penzeys, William Sonoma or Amazon.
Oh my… this recipe is amazing!!!! The dough alone is the best thing ever 🙂 Thanks for posting this.
New viewer and hooked for life 🙂
Just made these – absolutely AMAZING!!!! Just FYI – it barely made a dozen cookies, not 2 dozen – but they were out of this world.
Can I substitute cook and serve pudding for the instant pudding?
OK YUMM!! Chocolate + salt = delish!!
Fi xx
You put together a lot of words that make my mouth water. I’m so excited to try these cookies. I bet they have an amazing depths of flavor.
YAY! I have been waiting for these since you posted on instagram! Does 1 stick of butter = 1/2 cup? thanks!Excited to make these!
I made these last night (with kosher salt) and they’re fabulous. This was my first brown butter experience…AND I THINK I LIKE IT. I would like to eat them all right now, but the thought of busting through my clothes, Hulk-style, is stopping me.
Oh man, there are so many incredible things about these! Brown butter, dark chocolate, cookies!
Thank you Stephanie!!
These cookies are to die for!! I am moving this to the top of my “must make” list! 🙂
I love salted cookies – it’s sweet, it’s salty, it’s perfect!
Have to try these out!
These look so AMAZING Jenny! That little bit of special salt just pushes the chocolate yummy factor right on over the edge of delicious!!!
Thank you Robyn!!
I absolutely have to make these!
Thanx so much for sharing this cannot wait to try them…Those pics are enough to make me drool 😉
Those look Aaamazing and I’m just a wee bit obsessed with brown butter! Where did you find the fleur de sel sea salt?
Lovely chubby little cookies! I love how pudding makes cookies chewy delicious( and browned butter makes everything better). 🙂
I’m in the mood for a round thick cookies also … these will definitely work for me 😉
These stayed so round and full!! I’ll have to save this recipe since I always end up with super flat chocolate chip cookies…
Mmm one of my favorite cookies I’ve posted on my blog is a Salted Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie! So amazing. And I have the fleur de sel, reserved for cookies only. Haha. It’s the best! These look incredible. I’m curious about the cake flour!
Those look SO good! Where do you buy fleur de sel sea salt ?
Oohh I see Williams Sonoma has it
YUM! Those look great. I bet the sprinkle of salt on top is perfection!
Made these today and they were a BIG hit with the family!! It was my 1st browned butter recipe. I might be addicted.
So, these are obviously going on my to-bake list because I absolutely adore anything brown butter.
These look awesome! You have the BEST cookie recipes!! I know if it is your cookie it is going to be GREAT! =)
Oh my Jenny! These look amazing…I think I’d gain a few pounds if these were around very long.
These look SOOOOO good! I adore everything you do with browned butter! 🙂
Oh, Jenny! I’ve been dreaming of these after seeing them in Instagram. They look DIVINE!!!
Oh these cookies look incredible!
I am also so jealous of you cookies! They look perfect every time! Mine always turn out flat and ugly!
These must be SO good! Brown butter and dark chocolate! Two of my favorite things!
I’m pretty much DYING over these. Love!
These look so perfectly amazing! I’ve tried to find fleur de sel in my local grocery stores but no success yet. I’m not giving up yet though!
Jenny these cookies look great! Can’t wait to see you in TX 🙂 XO
Oh I can only imagine the depth of wonderful flavor of these, Jenny! The butter, the chocolate, and then softness and chewiness look perfect. Pudding mix and cornstarch both – I’ve never seen that, usually just one or the other. I bet the texture is just wonderful with these!
I’ve always been frightened of brown butter recipes simply because it seems it is always a matter of holding my breath and crossing my fingers that I don’t overdo and go from brown butter to um, burned butter. I think your recipe here has convinced me to give it a go 😀 Thanks for the nudge!