Browned Butter Oatmeal Cookies

5 from 1 vote

Browned Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Chewy Oatmeal Cookies made with browned butter and chocolate chips. Crispy edges, gooey in the middle, and not a raisin in sight!

Prep Time10

Cook Time15

Chilling15

Course: Afternoon Tea, Snack

Cuisine: American, Australian, English

Servings:

Calories: 266kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

250 grams Unsalted butter browned, to make 200g (see notes)
220 grams Brown sugar
110 grams White sugar
2 Eggs XL, room temp
2 tsp Vanilla extract
½ tsp Flaky sea salt
1½ tsp Bi carb soda
1 tsp Cinnamon
250 grams Plain flour
190 grams Rolled oats traditional, not microwave oats
175 grams Dark chocolate chips

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180℃ or 350℉ and line 2 cookie trays with baking paper.
Melt 250g butter in a saucepan until foamy and golden. Pour into a heatproof bowl and let cool (you’ll have about 200g).
Using a hand or stand mixer, beat the cooled butter with brown and white sugars until creamy.
Mix in eggs and vanilla extract.
In a separate bowl, combine plain flour, rolled oats, bicarb soda, cinnamon and salt, using a spatula. Fold dry ingredients into the wet mixture, then stir in the chocolate chips.
Cover and chill the dough for 20 minutes.
While the mixture chills, preheat your oven to 180°C/350℉ or 160℃ fan.
Using a large cookie scoop, scoop dough balls onto lined trays. I place 6 per tray (you will need to bake in batches if you're not freezing dough balls for later)
Bake for 13-15 minutes, until lightly golden. Remove from the oven, then scoot the cookies back into shape with a round cookie cutter if desired

Notes

How to brown butter:

Add your butter to a small saucepan over medium heat. Let it melt, then stir gently as it bubbles and foams. After a few minutes, it’ll start to smell nutty and you’ll notice golden brown bits forming on the bottom. That’s when it’s ready! Pour it into a heatproof bowl and make sure to scrape in all those flavour-packed brown bits. Let it cool for 10–15 minutes before using.

🔥 Pro Tip: Don’t walk away while browning the butter -it can go from golden to burnt in a flash. Once it smells amazing and looks toasty, pull it off the heat.

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