These delicious brown butter chocolate chip cookies are a must-try! Made with brown butter and chocolate chips, they are soft, chewy, and packed with flavor. They are perfect for any occasion! ..

Brown Butter White Chocolate Chip Cookies

There’s nothing quite like homemade chocolate chip cookies, and this recipe has quickly become a family favorite! Browned butter takes these cookies over the top. The molasses in the brown sugar makes them wonderfully soft and chewy and the butter adds a great nutty flavor. Loaded with white and semi-sweet chocolate chips, these are the real deal. Get ready to meet your new favorite cookie recipe! Be sure to try my Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars and Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake too!

How to Make Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Heat the butter until it foams and whisk. Remove from heat once it’s browned and let cool. Mix together the dry ingredients. Mix together the wet ingredients. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and fold in the chocolate chips. Scoop the cookie dough onto a baking sheet and chill. Bake, let cool, and enjoy.

Unsalted Butter: Using unsalted butter allows you more control over the salt content of the cookies. If you use salted butter, you may want to reduce or omit the ¼ teaspoon of sea salt. All-purpose Flour: I used unbleached flour, but bleached flour would work just as well. Semisweet Chocolate Chips: feel free to substitute with dark or milk chocolate chips. White Chocolate Chips: I love the balance and variety of flavor the white chocolate chips bring to these cookies, but if you prefer, you can replace the white chocolate chips with more semisweet, dark, or milk chocolate chips. You can even experiment with cinnamon or peanut butter chips!Flake Sea Salt: An optional ingredient that helps balance the sweetness of these cookies.

If you are looking for an easy way to fancy up your chocolate chip cookies, then brown butter is the way to do it! The nutty flavor complements the vanilla and chocolate so well, and I promise that you won’t be able to stop at one! I love to make these cookies with a mixture of white and semi-sweet chocolate chips, you get the richness and sweetness that’s tough to resist. Don’t forget that flakey sea salt that balances out the flavors and elevates the taste of the chocolate. These brown butter chocolate chip cookies are a must-make recipe! Simple to make, but the flavors are not playing! Be sure to make a double batch as they’ll disappear quickly!

Swap the white chocolate chips for cinnamon chips, mint chips, caramel chips, peanut butter chips, or toffee pieces. Add ¼ unsweetened cocoa powder with the dry ingredients to make double-chocolate cookies. Substitute the semisweet chocolate chips for all white chocolate chips and add rainbow sprinkles for funfetti cookies. Add crumbled graham crackers and mini marshmallows for s’mores cookies. Flatten the dough balls, add 1 teaspoon of Nutella, and roll the dough back up to create Nutella stuffed chocolate chip cookies.

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