This continues my dad's "year of oatmeal cookies." This is May's edition. Place on a wire cooling rack to cool completely. Use a pizza cutter to cut into squares or sticks. Don't try to flip it with a regular 's warm and will break apart. Lift the pan to remove the square of shortbread.Īt this point, use a giant spatula (like this cake lifter/spatula) to flip the cookie right-side-up, OR leave as is. After 5 minutes, place a cutting board on top of the pan. Remove the pans from the oven and run a sharp knife around the edges of the pan. Press the dough using your fingers or the back of a measuring cup. Mix until incorporated.ĭivide the dough evenly into the prepared pans. On low speed, add in the flour, oats, and baking powder. With an electric mixer, beat together the cooled brown butter, brown sugar, salt, and water. It doesn't have to be cold, just let it come to room temperature. Keep swirling the pan occasionally, and listen and watch carefully–when the foam begins to subside and the sizzling suddenly, the butter will quickly turn brown and smell nutty, about 5 minutes total. Once the butter is completely melted, it will bubble and sizzle. To brown the butter: Place the butter in a small saucepan set over medium-high heat. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. The brown butter takes an extra 5 minutes or so and adds a MAJOR wallop of intense butter flavor.ġ & 1/2 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour Combine 1 1/4 cups cooled browned butter, brown sugar, 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla in bowl. E's favorites, and these don't disappoint. To this day, I still shake my head when I see one of them choose oatmeal over chocolate chip. Or you can skip the sandwiching and just do some chocolate and drizzle.These cookies are pretty much the perfect mash-up for two of my favorite men.īoth my dad and Mr. Press another cookie gently on top.Ĭoat in chocolate, and decorate with drizzle to get extra fancy! To fill the cookies, (and this couldn’t get any easier) just grab a ball of caramel, roll in your hand, and press down slightly. Unlike the butter earlier, you don’t really want them browned, just baked through and set up. Watch closely! Your oven is unique, and it’s likely the time will differ a bit from my baking time. Cut it out using your favorite cookie cutters.īake at 300° for 20-25 minutes on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Roll out the dough into about 1/3 – 1/2 inch thick. I had to knead it a bit and press it down into a circle, reshaping every so often, before I rolled it out. The dough is pretty crumbly, but should stay together for you. Stir it every 5 minutes until it’s solidified, but not frozen.Ĭream the butter and sugar together, add in the vanilla and flour, and the dump out onto a powdered sugared counter. Line a 13-by-9-inch baking pan with foil, allowing the edges to hang over the sides of the pan. You can speed the process along by browning it and sticking it in a bowl in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. 1 For the shortbread: Preheat the oven to 350☏. But if you are like me at all, pre-planning isn’t really your *thing*. The easiest way to do this is to brown the butter the day before, stick it in the fridge overnight, and then pull it out of the fridge about an hour before you plan to bake. Start by browning some butter, and then chill it. These cookies would be great plain, without all the adornment, but who can resist some buttery sugar covered in chocolatey awesomeness?Īnd not the family yesterday at our weekly get-together. Nothing really else can impart the same flavor as browned butter can. Sometimes I will just brown up a pound or so of butter and then just stick it in the fridge to add to things at will. It gives whatever you add it to such a warm, almost nutty flavor. LOVE it in these soft ginger cookies too. LOVE LOVE it in these blueberry dutch babies. Love it on pasta tossed with myzithra cheese. Because do you know the only thing better that regular butter? The browned butter trend is one crazy train I have jumped all the way on board with. I am so excited to share these browned butter shortbread cookies with you. My Browned Butter Shortbread Cookie recipe is a holiday favorite around here! I can’t wait for you to try them!
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