Brown Butter, Walnut and Dark Chocolate Cookies
I love baking cookies, there’s so many variations of them that I don’t think I could ever get bored of making a cookie. My favourite type of cookie though is when it contains brown butter because that deep, caramalised flavour adds a depth that is truly unparalleled.
Ingredients
120g Salted Butter (I used vegan, hard flora)
110g Light Brown Sugar
60g Golden Caster Sugar
220g Plain Flour
2 eggs (1 whole, 1 yolk)
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
70g chopped walnuts (chopped)
100g Dark Chocolate (chopped)
Method
To start off, we make the brown butter first so it’s cool enough to add to the sugar. In a saucepan add in your butter and cook on a low heat until the butter bubbles and then settles to a brown colour. It’ll start to smell quite nutty as well. When it reaches this stage, put to the side.
In a stand mixer (using the paddle attachment), pop in your sugar and vanilla extract and then add in your brown butter little by little. Mix on a high speed until lighter in colour and fluffy.
Gradually add in your eggs, little by little - don’t stop mixing until everything is fully combined and blonde/light brown in colour.
In another bowl sieve in your plain flour with your baking powder and soda until fully combined. Make sure there are no lumps and add in to your wet mix and keep mixing until a dough is formed. Usually 3-4 minutes.
Stop mixing and add in your nuts and chopped chocolate and stir using a wooden spoon until your mix is fully incorporated.
Pop your bowl into the fridge covered with plastic film or tin foil and leave overnight.
In the morning, use an ice cream scoop to get uniformed cookie dough balls and place on baking parchment on a tray and bake in the oven at 180c for 7 minutes. At minute 7, get them out and use a spatula to gently press them down then put back in for a further 8 minutes.
Leave them on a cooling rack until cool enough to eat unless you want them fresh out the oven and nice and warm. If so, crack open that ice cream and settle down to a good movie and enjoy.
