Bring a jolt of flavor to your chocolate chip cookies with browned butter and ground cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves. Like combining a mild-flavored gingersnap and a traditional chocolate chip cookie, super tasty Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies may just become your new favorite chocolate chip cookie!
I may just have a new favorite chocolate chip cookie. Because I'm absolutely in love with these Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Reminiscent of combining a mild-flavored gingersnap and a traditional chocolate chip cookie, these spiced chocolate chip cookies are just packed with flavor from browned butter, ground cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves.
Browned butter adds such a wonderfully flavorful richness to these cookies. -- And I have a confession to make. In the past, I've always been one of those people who, when reading a recipe that's called for browned butter, thought "Oh, I don't really need to go through the extra step of browning the butter. It won't make much difference."
Uh, WRONG. Sooooo wrong.
Uh, WRONG. Sooooo wrong.
Reminiscent of combining a mild-flavored gingersnap and a traditional chocolate chip cookie, these spiced chocolate chip cookies are just packed with flavor.
I've since learned that when a recipe calls for browned butter, there's a reason -- because browned butter rewards you with absolutely amazing rich flavor. Please, take the time to brown the butter when a recipe calls for it. You'll be so glad you did.
Now in addition to browned butter, these scrumptious chocolate chip cookies get a wonderful jolt of flavor from ground cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves. The resulting flavor is like combining a mild-flavored gingersnap and a traditional chocolate chip cookie. -- And it's a flavor combination that is just ohhhhh-so good.
As an added bonus along with fabulous flavor, Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are whole grain.
Surprised? Well, many people are. But made with white whole-wheat flour, these little yummies are indeed whole grain. Which is a nice little added bonus, for sure.
Surprised? Well, many people are. But made with white whole-wheat flour, these little yummies are indeed whole grain. Which is a nice little added bonus, for sure.
- The richness of browned butter - Browned butter brings a wonderful and unique richness of flavor to these spiced chocolate chip cookies.
- Flavor jolt from the combination of spices - These scrumptious cookies get a wonderful jolt of flavor from ground cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves. It's like combining a mild-flavored gingersnap and a traditional chocolate chip cookie, and it's ohhhhh-so good.
- Whole grain - Made with white whole wheat flour, Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies aren't just delicious, they're whole grain too!
- A unique spin on the classic - Not your average chocolate chip cookies, these deliver up a truly unique and tasty spin on the classic original.
Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredient Highlights:
Four key ingredients combine to create the unique and delicious flavor of these Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. They are:
- Browned butter - A key ingredient in developing the characteristic flavor of these cookies. Made by cooking butter over medium heat on the stovetop until it turns golden brown, browned butter brings a wonderful and unique richness of flavor to the cookies. It may be tempting to skip the step of browning the butter, but the flavor browned butter imparts is well worth the small bit of time it takes to make it.
- Ground spices - Ground cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves -- the traditional mix of spices used to make gingerbread -- create the signature flavor of these spiced chocolate chip cookies. The spice combo creates a cookie reminiscent of a mild-flavored gingersnap mixed with a traditional chocolate chip cookie.
- Dark brown sugar - A type of brown sugar with a higher molasses content and a bit more moisture than its light counterpart. Dark brown sugar brings depth of flavor to the cookies, much more so than the light brown sugar used when making traditional chocolate chip cookies. We do not recommend substituting light brown sugar in this recipe.
- White whole wheat flour - A type of whole grain flour made from white spring or winter wheat with kernels that have a white outer shell. Because of this, white whole wheat flour is lighter in color and texture and has a milder, sweeter flavor than regular whole wheat flour. -- However, it maintains the same nutritional value as regular whole wheat flour. White whole wheat flour creates a "heartier" cookie than if made with all-purpose white flour, and it contributes a slight bit of "nutty" flavor to the cookies. Regular all-purpose flour or whole wheat flour can be substituted, however either will slightly change the taste and texture of the finished cookies.
How to Make Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies:
Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies come together in the same way as traditional chocolate chip cookies, with the added step of first preparing some browned butter.
To make the recipe's browned butter, start by melting 10 tablespoons of unsalted butter in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook the butter for about 3 to 4 minutes until it turns a nice golden brown. Then pour the browned butter into a large mixing bowl and add 4 more tablespoons of unsalted butter, stirring until it's fully melted.
To make the cookie dough, add some dark brown sugar, granulated sugar, vanilla extract, salt, and egg to the browned butter, stirring to combine.
Then in a separate bowl, whisk together some white whole wheat flour, ground cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves, and a bit of baking soda. Combine the flour mixture with the butter mixture, stirring until they're well combined. Finally, add in some chocolate chips and stir until everything's just barely combined.
Cover the cookie dough and chill it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Since this dough is made with warm melted butter, you want to cool that butter and firm up the dough a bit before baking it or the cookies will spread way too much.
Once chilled, scoop the dough by heaping tablespoonfuls onto baking sheets, placing the dough scoops at least 2 inches apart.
Pop the pans in the oven and bake for about 9-11 minutes until the cookies are puffy and the edges are a nice light golden brown. Then remove the baked cookies to a wire rack to cool.
So, if you love chocolate chip cookies and the flavor of gingerbread or gingersnaps, whip up a batch of these scrumptious Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies that beautifully combine the two. We highly recommend them for their fabulous flavor -- and as an added bonus, they're whole-grain, to boot.
And do take the time to brown the butter. Believe me, the flavor reward is worth it!
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Yield: about 2-3 dozen cookies
Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bring a jolt of flavor to your chocolate chip cookies with browned butter and ground cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves. Like combining a mild-flavored gingersnap and a traditional chocolate chip cookie, super tasty Spiced Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies may just become your new favorite chocolate chip cookie!
Prep time: 20 MinCook time: 11 MinInactive time: 30 MinTotal time: 1 H & 1 M
Ingredients
- 14 T. softened unsalted butter, divided
- 3/4 c. packed dark brown sugar
- 1/2 c. granulated sugar
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 3/4 c. white whole-wheat flour
- 3/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp. ground allspice
- 1/8 tsp. ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, melt 10 tablespoons of butter over medium-high heat. Cook until butter turns golden brown, about 3 to 4 minutes. Pour into a large mixing bowl. Add remaining 4 tablespoons of butter and stir until melted.
- Add dark brown sugar, granulated sugar, vanilla extract, and salt to the browned butter; stir to combine. Add the egg and egg yolk, mixing until well combined.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, and baking soda. Combine the flour mixture with the butter mixture, stirring until well combined. Add chocolate chips and stir until just combined.
- Cover dough and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Scoop dough by heaping tablespoonfuls onto baking sheets, placing dough at least 2 inches apart.
- Bake at 375℉ until cookies are puffy and edges are golden brown, about 9 - 11 minutes.
- Cool completely on a wire rack.
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I know, right? Browned butter, no biggie. Until you taste it. OMG! These cookies are fab!
ReplyDeleteI kick myself for all the times I skipped browning the butter! Never again.
DeleteThese sound delicious, I've just baked something that contained brown butter and it was so good. I found your blog on Time to Sparkle.
ReplyDeleteOooo - I'm going to have to try this! I came over from Yellow Bliss Road's link party.
ReplyDeleteYou had my at browned butter :) Pinned!
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