Brown Butter Crinkle Cookies

Dive into fall with easy Crinkle Cookies with Brown Butter. The comforting flavor of brown butter cookies leaves you with a deeper, richer, heavenly taste you won’t forget.

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Making Crinkle Cookies with brown butter adds a little fall flavor. They’re richer with a hint of nutty flavor that makes them out-of-this world.

They taste so totally decadent, and will instantly become one of your favorite fall cookies! And psst… if you love these, don’t skip my incredibly buttery Toffee Cookies.

Brown Butter Crinkle Cookie Ingredients

You just need to grab a few pantry staples to make the best crinkle cookies ever!

• Butter
• Sugar
• Brown Sugar – Learn about the Best Brown Sugar Substitutes here.
• Eggs
• Vanilla Extract
• Flour
• Baking Powder
• Salt
• Powdered Sugar: Sometimes known as confectioners sugar or icing sugar.

How To Make Crinkle Cookies With Brown Butter

1. Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat until it turns brown, has a nutty aroma and starts foaming {about 3 minutes}. Allow to cool.  See below for detailed instructions on how to brown butter.
2. Combine sugars, eggs and vanilla. Gradually integrate the cooled butter. 
3. Add flour, baking powder and salt, mix until just combined. Refrigerate dough 1+ hours.
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a cookie scoop or roll into 1″ balls and roll in powdered sugar. 
5. Bake 10 minutes.

How To Brown Butter

1. Melt – Start to melt the butter over medium heat
2. Swirl – Occasionally swirl the pan to ensure the butter is cooking evenly
3. Remove from Heat – Once the butter transitions to a toasty brown, and gives off a nutty aroma, remove from the heat
4. Cool

You can watch a video on how to make brown butter here!

You have to take a little taste of the brown butter when you blend it with the sugars – it’s just heavenly. If you’re a cookie dough lover, you’re going to want to set some aside for snacking!

The Perfect Crinkle Cookies

My philosophy is that brown butter makes everything better. If you haven’t tried it, these brown butter Crinkle Cookies are the perfect excuse.

Brown butter gives cookies {and every other dish} a deeper flavor. Plus, it’s like potpourri for your kitchen. It fills it with the most beautiful nutty aroma as the butter browns.

I promise this step takes just a few minutes and is worth every second. Plus, you don’t have to soften the butter, and I rarely if ever plan ahead enough to allow it to soften on the countertop. Sold? Good.

To Store

Room Temperature – Let your baked cookies cool to room temperature and keep them in an airtight container at room temperature, they will be good for 2 to 3 days. Don’t refrigerate them or they will harden quickly. Lots of people swear by putting a slice of bread in with the cookies, and that keeps them softer for longer.

Tips

• Let the browned butter cool before adding it to the other ingredients – so you don’t scramble the eggs!
• Allow an hour to chill the dough.
• Bake cookies in a pre-heated oven for best results.
• Make a double batch!

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Crinkle Cookies

By Julie Blanner

Dive into fall with easy Crinkle Cookies. The comforting flavor of brown butter cookies leaves you with a heavenly taste you won’t forget.

Prep: 10 minutes mins

Cook: 10 minutes mins

Total: 20 minutes mins

Servings: 36

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Ingredients  

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• ▢ 11 tablespoons butter
• ▢ 1 cup white granulated sugar
• ▢ 1/4 cup brown sugar
• ▢ 2 eggs
• ▢ 1 tablespoons vanilla
• ▢ 2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• ▢ 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon salt

Topping:

• ▢ 1/2 cup powdered sugar {also known as confectioner’s sugar}

Instructions 

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat until it turns brown, has a nutty aroma and starts foaming {about 3 minutes}. Allow to cool. 
• Combine sugars, eggs and vanilla. Gradually integrate the cooled butter. 
• Add flour, baking powder and salt, mix until just combined. Refrigerate dough 1+ hours.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a cookie scoop or roll into 1″ balls and roll in powdered sugar. 
• Bake 10 minutes.

Julie’s Tips

Brown butter gives cookies {and every other dish} a deeper flavor. Plus, it’s like potpourri for your kitchen. It fills it with the most beautiful nutty aroma as the butter browns.

Calories: 101kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 67mg | Potassium: 27mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 120IU | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 1mg

Estimated nutrition information is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed.