Recipe: Appetizing Brown Butter M&M Cookies

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Brown Butter M&M Cookies. Brown butter, also known as beurre noisette, is made by cooking unsalted butter long enough to turn the milk solids brown while cooking out any water present in the butter. Often described as tasting nutty or toasty, it has a deeper, richer, more intense flavor than melted or clarified butter. All you need is butter, a skillet or pan and a watchful eye.

If you have multiple pans to choose from, a light-colored one will allow you to better monitor the butter as its color.

Brown butter can be used anywhere you'd use butter, including spreading on toast, topping pancakes, making pie crust, roasting vegetables, baking cookies, adding to hot buttered rums, adding to more butter, making into a sauce for vegetables, eating with a spoon, baking quick breads, making cinnamon rolls, topping biscuits, sautéing.

I'm definitely in need of a green juice/green toast detox day… but first, just one more bite of these brown butter M&M blondies 😉 These blondies are wildly delicious and super simple!

You can cook Brown Butter M&M Cookies using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Brown Butter M&M Cookies

1. It’s 3/4 cup of unsalted butter, room temperature.

2. Prepare 3/4 cup of light brown sugar, packed.

3. It’s 1/4 cup of sugar.

4. It’s 1 of large egg.

5. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.

6. It’s 1 1/2 Tbl of low-fat milk.

7. Prepare 2 cup of all-purpose flour.

8. Prepare 1 tsp of cornstarch.

9. It’s 1 tsp of baking soda.

10. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.

11. Prepare 1 cup of M&M's, plus more for the tops of the cookies.

To make them you will need butter, brown sugar, an egg, flour, salt, baking powder, and M&M's.

Whether you're making banana bread or gooey sweet blondies, knowing how to brown butter is a skill every baker, from beginner to expert, should have in their wheelhouse.

Also known as beurre noisette, browned butter adds a toasted, somewhat nutty note to both sweet and savory recipes that can make a major difference in taste.

Browned Butter M & M Cookies.

Brown Butter M&M Cookies instructions

1. Place butter in a small saucepan over medium heat and heat until golden brown specks appear, swirling the pan occasionally. Butter will get foamy and if you swirl the pan around, you will see brown bits at the bottom and it will have a nutty smell. Remove from heat and pour into a small bowl. Make sure to get all those browned bits at the bottom of the pan, that is where all the flavor is. Allow to cool until it becomes solid or refrigerate to speed up the process..

2. When brown butter is solid. Cream together brown butter, brown sugar and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla and milk and beat until combined..

3. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt..

4. Add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients. Mix until just combined..

5. Stir in one cup of M&Ms. Chill dough for at least one hour or overnight..

6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll dough into balls, around 1½ Tablespoons of dough per cookie. Press a few extra M&Ms onto the top of each dough ball. Bake for 7- 9 minutes. Cookies will look underdone, but set up perfectly once they cool. Do not over bake or the cookies will be dry. Makes 24-30 cookies..

To make traditional brown butter, you simply heat the butter in a saucepan.

A few dishes in which brown butter and sage go perfectly are potato gnocchi or pumpkin gnocchi (add nutmeg and black pepper to the sauce, then finish off the dish with grated Parmesan and crushed toasted walnuts).

It's also great with filled pasta like ravioli or agnolotti, or tossed with fresh tagliolini or tagliatelle, or stirred (cold, this time) into a risotto with mushrooms right before.

This recipe has been adjusted for high altitude.

Brown butter is regular butter that has been cooked just long enough to toast the milk solids found in the butter.