Brown Butter Snickerdoodles – Sugar Spun Run

Take basic snickerdoodle cookies to the subsequent stage with wealthy and nutty brown butter! These brown butter snickerdoodles are stuffed with taste, straightforward to make (no chilling!) and are virtually assured to fly proper off your cookie tray.

Browned Butter Snickerdoodles

I’m again with one other enjoyable variation of basic snickerdoodles! These brown butter snickerdoodles are thick, comfortable, melt-in-your mouth cookies which can be completely loaded with taste.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Unbelievable depth of taste. Should you’ve tried my pistachio cake or peach muffins, simply how impactful brown butter may be. Its nutty, toasted taste goes so effectively with the comfy cinnamon on this recipe. I’m not kidding after I say it elevates the basic cookie to new heights.
• No mixer wanted! Since we’re browning the butter, there’s no must cream softened butter into the sugar. Yay for simplicity!
• The dough freezes effectively, so it’s nice for making upfront or baking only a few cookies at a time.
• No chilling required. Although you’ll be able to definitely pop the dough within the fridge for an hour for those who favor thicker cookies.

The brown butter performs a significant position within the taste of those cookies; I needed it to be noticeable alongside the basic snickerdoodle style (barely tangy, spiced with cinnamon, and candy). I personally really feel like I nailed my taste objectives for this recipe, and would possibly even like these brown butter snickerdoodles higher than the common selection. Can’t wait to listen to what you consider them!

What You Want

We’ll be utilizing simply 10 substances right now, all of that are pantry staples. Let’s go over just a few earlier than we get began.

• Butter. I persist with unsalted butter and salt to higher management the general taste of the recipe. Should you solely have salted butter available, you need to use that and scale back the salt within the recipe to simply ½ teaspoon. Clearly (I hope) we’ll be browning the butter earlier than utilizing it (therefore why these are brown butter snickerdoodles!).
• Cream of tartar. You may’t actually make a snickerdoodle with out this ingredient, because it provides the signature tang that these cookies are identified for. Discovered within the spice aisle, this can be a advantageous white powder and for those who’re not acquainted I’ve a complete submit that discusses what cream of tartar is and the way it’s typically used.
• Cinnamon. A sprinkle of this candy spice goes into the dough, however most significantly we’ll make a cinnamon sugar combination and roll the cookie dough by this earlier than baking. The cinnamon pairs so superbly with the browned butter, giving these cookies an absolute symphony of taste.
• Eggs. This recipe works finest for those who use room temperature eggs. Should you overlook to set yours out forward of time, head over to my submit on the best way to shortly deliver eggs to room temperature.
• Brown sugar. I take advantage of gentle brown sugar and advocate you do the identical, however you will get away with darkish brown sugar if that’s all you’ve got available. Simply notice that darkish brown sugar will impart a stronger molasses taste and can make your brown butter snickerdoodles darker in colour.

SAM’S TIP: Measuring your flour correctly is so necessary when baking. On this recipe, for those who over-measure your flour (the commonest mistake!), your cookies could find yourself too thick and received’t unfold within the oven in any respect. To keep away from this, I extremely advocate you use a kitchen scale to measure your substances. It’s a sport changer!

Bear in mind, that is simply an summary of the substances I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the submit!

Easy methods to Make Brown Butter Snickerdoodles

Brown the Butter

1. Soften the butter in a saucepan over medium-low warmth. A light-weight-colored saucepan is finest, this manner you’ll be able to most simply inform as soon as the butter begins to show brown.
2. Prepare dinner the butter (holding warmth low/no less than beneath medium) and also you’ll discover it is going to foam, pop, and sizzle.
3. Stir always till you discover these stunning golden brown bits forming on the underside of your pan and also you scent the nutty aroma of browned butter.
4. As soon as this begins to occur, instantly take away from warmth and pour the browned butter right into a heatproof bowl. Ensure you scrape the pan with a spatula, you need all of these browned bits to finish up in your cookies!

It’s so necessary that the browned butter be allowed to chill earlier than you add the sugars, or you could possibly find yourself with a greasy cookie dough that spreads throughout your pan. Be sure it not feels heat to the contact (I often really feel the underside of the bowl) earlier than continuing.

Make the Cookie Dough

1. Stir collectively the cooled browned butter and sugars till mixed, then add the eggs and vanilla.
2. Whisk the dry substances collectively in a separate bowl, then regularly add them to the moist substances. I like to recommend you do that in 4-5 elements, in any other case you’ll have a tricky time bringing the dough collectively (it’s a reasonably stiff dough anyway!).
3. Whisk collectively the cinnamon and sugar in a separate small bowl.
4. Scoop and roll the cookie dough into balls and thru the cinnamon sugar combination.
5. Bake, then let the cookies cool fully on the baking sheet earlier than having fun with.

SAM’S TIP: Simply barely underbaking these cookies is vital to creating the comfortable and chewy texture that makes these cookies so excessive scrumptious. They received’t be uncooked inside although, not as soon as they’ve cooled fully. We’re letting them end cooking outdoors the oven on their baking sheets.

Steadily Requested Questions

I can’t wait to listen to how you want this recipe in comparison with the basic!

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