How To Make Browned Butter Crinkle Cookies
Serve these sweet and chewy crinkle cookies on your weeknight dinner made with rich and flavorful browned butter topped with a decadent caramel frosting.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1cupsalted butter,diced into cubes
- 2¼cupsall-purpose flour
- 2tspcornstarch
- 1tspbaking powder
- ¼tspBaking Soda
- ¼tspsalt
- ½cupgranulated sugar
- ½cuppacked light-brown sugar
- 1large egg
- 1large egg yolk
- 2tspvanilla extract
- ¼cupgranulated sugar,for rolling cookies
For the Salted Caramel Frosting:
- ¼cupcaramel sauce,or caramel ice cream topping, plus 2 tablespoon
- ¼cupbutter,softened
- ½tspvanilla extract
- 2cupspowdered sugar
- ¾tspcoarse sea salt,divided
Instructions
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Heat butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook just until the butter has browned, swirling occasionally.
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Pour the butter into a heat-proof bowl. Allow butter to cool until just warm to the touch for about 20 to 25 minutes.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, set aside.
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Add cooled butter, ½ cup granulated sugar, and light-brown sugar to an electric stand mixer and mix until well blended. Add in egg, egg yolk, and vanilla then mix until combine.
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Slowly add in dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
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Scoop dough out 1½ tablespoons at a time and form into balls then pour ¼ cup granulated sugar into a small bowl and roll balls in sugar to evenly coat.
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Place sugar-coated dough balls onto a Silpat lined or greased baking sheet. Using the bottom of a flat measuring cup or drinking glass, gently flatten each ball to ½-inch then bake in a preheated oven for 9 to 11 minutes.
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Allow cooling several minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
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Cool completely then frost each cookie with Salted Caramel Frosting and sprinkle each cookie evenly with a small pinch of sea salt immediately. Store cookies in a single layer in an airtight container.
Salted Caramel Frosting:
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In a large mixing bowl, using an electric hand mixer on low speed, whip together caramel sauce, butter, and vanilla until pale and smooth for about 1 minute.
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Add in powdered sugar and mix until well blended and smooth. Use coarse sea salt to sprinkle over frosted cookies.
Nutrition
- Calories: 224.01kcal
- Fat: 10.09g
- Saturated Fat: 6.23g
- Trans Fat: 0.39g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.66g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.48g
- Carbohydrates: 32.27g
- Fiber: 0.35g
- Sugar: 20.57g
- Protein: 1.74g
- Cholesterol: 40.89mg
- Sodium: 119.72mg
- Calcium: 26.63mg
- Potassium: 28.98mg
- Iron: 0.67mg
- Vitamin A: 87.82µg
- Vitamin C: 0.01mg
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