Ahhh, that’s it now friends! My Holiday baking is complete and I think I may have saved the best for last. I probably say that because this cookie is the first I have done with chocolate this season. My chocoholic gene is strong! These brown butter chocolate chunk cookies are basic chocolate chip cookies with the volume turned up to 11. The dough came together easily!
After they completely cooled, I packed up the brown butter chocolate chunk cookies in airtight containers. They were ready for giving! It felt really good to finish up my baking, let me tell you. I also just finished getting my Christmas cards out and bought the last present I needed yesterday. Phew! I am starting to feel like I’m on top of things for next week. xoxo
Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
1 hr
These incredible brown butter chocolate chunk cookies are like the classic chocolate chip cookies amped up a few notches!
Course: Dessert
Keyword: Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Cookies
Servings: 45 cookies
Calories: 362 kcal
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 whole eggs
- 12 ounces semi-sweet bakers chocolate roughly chopped into chunks
Instructions
- First, prepare the brown butter. Get the butter into a sauce pan and heat it over medium to medium high heat. Let it melt and gently cook while you swirl it around just until it starts to become a deep golden brown color. Take it off the heat and set it aside to cool. While it cools, pre-heat the oven to 375 and line 4 cookie sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper.
- Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl and whisk them together to aerate them. Set the bowl aside. Then combine the two sugars and the cooled brown butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Cream them together until fluffy and thoroughly combined. Add in the vanilla, followed by each egg one at a time until they are mixed in. Turn the speed to low and slowly add in the dry ingredients just until it is combined in and a soft cookie dough forms. Turn off the mixer and switch to a rubber spatula to fold in the chocolate chunks.
- Use a 1.5 inch cookie scoop to scoop perfect dollops of dough onto the lined cookie sheets. Be sure they are spread out evenly with no more than a dozen per sheet. Using that measurement, there should be a yield of 45 cookies. Bake the cookies in two batches of two trays each. Bake the first batch for 12 minutes, rotating the two trays halfway through to make sure they bake evenly. When they come out of the oven, let them cool on the sheets for a few minutes before transferring them to cooling racks to finish cooling. Repeat with the second batch.
- When all of the cookies are baked and completely cooled, just pack them in airtight containers to enjoy and give! They will keep for a week or in the airtight containers.
Nutrition Facts
Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Amount Per Serving (3 cookies)
Calories 362 Calories from Fat 176
% Daily Value*
Fat 19.6g30%
Saturated Fat 11.7g73%
Cholesterol 54mg18%
Sodium 355mg15%
Potassium 43mg1%
Carbohydrates 46.3g15%
Fiber 2.3g10%
Sugar 29.8g33%
Protein 4.5g9%
Calcium 10mg1%
Iron 0.9mg5%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Oh my yummy Leigh! A very Merry Christmas to you and Marc! Hugs, Cheryl
Thank you so much, my friend!! A very merry Christmas right back to you and yours :-). xoxo
My weakness is chocolate chip cookies! I love that this serving size is 3! Thanks for sharing the nutritional value too.
Thanks very much, I appreciate that!! Glad the nutrition information helps :-).
Ooh…yummy. I love homemade cookies. I’m going to try making these!!
Wonderful, let me know what you think of them!! 🙂
You had me at chocolate chunk. 😉 I usually use mini chocolate chips, but when my family recently went to Spokane on a vacation, I got them a scone with gigantic hunks of chocolate and their minds were blown!!
Thank you so much!! The big chunks of chocolate definitely make it :-).
I adore brown butter anything! Can’t wait to try these!
Thank you so much!!
There is nothing as delicious and comforting as a chocolate chip cookie. I just love them. This recipe looks amazing and I can’t wait to try it!
Thanks very much!!
Wowzers, these look so delicious! I’ve had a major craving for some homemade cookies and I think I’m going to make these this weekend! Thanks!