Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
These sugar cookies are made using browned butter. The flavors are elevated with a nutty flavor in this traditional cookie.
Servings: 40 cookies
Calories: 157kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup butter (browned - see recipe)
- ⅔ cup shortening
- 1 ¾ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup sugar for cinnamon sugar mixture
- ¼ cup cinnamon for cinnamon sugar mixture
Instructions
Brown Butter
- Heat skillet over medium heat and melt butter.
- Stir occasionally and allow butter to start to foam.
- Keep stirring until little bits of brown start to develop in skillet. Roughly 8 minutes (adjust accordingly)
- Stir and remove from heat immediately and pour into heat proof bowl.
- Cover and place in refrigerator and allow for butter to turn back into solid state. Roughly 45 minutes to an hour. Just enough to make the butter solidify but still workable.
Brown Butter Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Mix butter and shortening together in large bowl.
- Add one egg at a time and blend well.
- Add in vanilla.
- Pour in sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- Slowly add in flour making sure to blend well.
- Roll dough into a ball shape.
- Roll balls of dough into the cinnamon sugar mixture and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until bottom of cookies are golden brown.
- After removing from oven, take back of spoon and lightly push down on center of cookies to help flatten them.
- If desired, sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top of cookie.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 157kcal | Carbohydrates: 23.4g | Protein: 1.6g | Fat: 6.8g | Saturated Fat: 3.1g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 84mg | Fiber: 0.7g | Sugar: 13.8g
