Brown Sugar Cookies

Contributor: anibundel


Brown Sugar Cookies


14 tablespoons butter (unsalted)
2 cups dark brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 cup+2 tbsp all purpose flour (10 2/3oz if you are a by-weight baker)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp table salt
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp vanilla extract

Melt 10 tbsp butter in skillet. Cook butter, stirring constantly until butter browns and has nutty aroma--about 1-3minutes. Transfer browned butter to bowl, add remaining four tbsp butter to it and stir until all is melted and let sit until roomish temperature, about 15 minutes or so.

Whisk the flour, baking soda and baking power in another bowl.  Set aside.

Meanwhile, set oven to 350 with rack in center position. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. In a shallow dish mix 1/4 cup brown sugar with 1/4 cup white, rubbing together until well combined. Set aside.

Add remaining 1 3/4 cup brown sugar and table salt to bowl with now-cooled butter and mix with wooden spoon until no sugar lumps remain.

Scrape down bowl, add egg, egg yolk and vanilla and mix until fully incorporated.

Scrape down bowl, add flour mixture, 1/3rd at a time. Give a final stir to make sure no flour pocket remain.

Turn out dough. Divide into 24 even pieces. Roll into balls and then roll balls in white/brown sugar mixture.

Set dough balls on baking sheets, 12 a piece.

Bake sheets *One At A Time.*  12 minutes per cookie sheet, turning sheet at 6 minute mark. Cookies will NOT look done when they come out. That's ok. Leave them sit on the baking sheet for five minutes while you start baking the second sheet.

After letting them "carry over bake" for five minutes on the sheet, carefully transfer to cooling rack using wide flat spatula. Repeat method with second cookie sheets worth of cookies. Cool to room temperature.

Eat Cookies.