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Browned Butter Peanut Butter Cookies

A little while back I had a day where I was craving peanut butter cookies something fierce. I kept thinking about how great the kitchen smells while you bake them, and of course how delicious they are. My mom always made a thinner and crunchier style of peanut butter cookies which I love, but I wanted to try out a thicker, chewier style this time around.

I found a recipe at Lovely Little Kitchen that called for browned butter, which intrigued me. They do take a bit of preparation, like making the browned butter, letting it cool, as well as chilling the dough. Overall I thought they were delicious, ultra chewy big ol’ cookies. Have a tall glass of milk ready when you eat one of these, that’s for sure. Many thanks to Lovely Little Kitchen for this recipe.

Notes: I subbed the yogurt for sour cream. These cookies are truly very chewy and thick. They keep very well. I had a Ziploc bag full of them in the pantry and even over a week later they tasted great and had a good texture. I made my cookies extra big so I only got about 2 dozen.

Browned Butter Peanut Butter Cookies
Makes 30 large cookies

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt (sour cream also works)
  • 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/4 salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

Directions

  1. To brown the butter: In a small saucepan over medium high heat, melt butter. Whisk continuously and be careful not to let it burn. Let the butter boil until it foams up, and then turns brown and has a nutty aroma. As soon as you see the butter has turned brown, remove it from the heat and pour it into the bowl of an electric mixer. Let the butter come back to room temperature. When the butter is cool, add dark brown sugar and granulated sugar and mix on medium speed. Then add the egg, and egg yolk. Mix until creamy.
  2. Add in the vanilla extract, and mix. Add creamy peanut butter and mix on low speed until well combined. Add the oil and Greek yogurt and mix until combined.
  3. In a separate small bowl, mix together flour, salt and baking soda. Gradually add the flour mixture into the peanut butter mixture on low speed until it is well combined and a dough has formed. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap, and chill in the fridge for a couple of hours.
  4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  5. With a large scoop (ice cream scoop size), scoop balls of chilled dough onto a Silpat lined baking sheet, six per batch. Press down dough with the tines of a fork to make a crosshatch pattern, and sprinkle with sparkling sugar. Bake for 11-13 minutes. The edges should be slightly golden. Cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before moving to a cooling rack.

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10 Comments

  1. Oh, Ali, I saw these in my email this morning, and fell for them immediately. Like you said, the recipe sounds "intriguing"…in a very good way. I don't mind a little extra prep time for great results. 🙂 I'm pinning these to try the next time I bake. Thanks for sharing Lovely Little Kitchen's recipe- I don't think I know her. I will go over and visit. Hope you're having a wonderful week!

  2. I was just telling my husband I wanted to make some cookies, and these are going to be them. It was fun co-hosting with at Wonderful Wednesdays!

  3. Ali, what fabulous Browned Butter Peanut Butter Cookies, they need to be in my cookie jar. Hope you are having a great week and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
    Come Back Soon!
    Miz Helen