I’m on a brown butter bender. I can’t stahp with the brown butter blondies and the brown butter buns, and now these Brown Butter Chocolate Malted Cookies. It would be a problem if it weren’t so awesome.
The brown butter makes these cookies. It works with the malt balls to create this super malty, super buttery flavour, all wrapped up with cocoa and milk chocolate. UGH, these are so good.
Rain was spattering against the windows when I woke up this morning, and the cool air coupled with the sound of the rain made baking cookies seem like the ideal activity for today. And it was.
But it did make it hard to feel like doing any other work. It’s a pitfall of working from home – baking cookies is eminently possible. At least if you’re at the office, you can’t just dive into some baking. When you have that option and Pinterest is screaming at you to SEIZE THE DAY!!! it’s hard to know what the right decision is.
But then I remember that cookies are always the right decision. Duh. In fact, it was lucky that the rain inspired my baking this morning, because if I’m honest I’ve been struggling with inspiration lately. If you have a minute, I’d love to hear what’s been inspiring you ! Help a sister out. Send me any weird, crazy, anything stuff that you’ve been feeling good about. ANYTHING AT ALL!
And then help yourself out and make some cookies because SERIOUSLY. They’re. So. Good.
xx Sarah.
- 1+ ½ sticks (175g) butter
- ½ cup (110g) caster sugar
- ¾ cup (185g) brown sugar
- 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
- 1 + ¼ cups (185g) plain flour
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- ¼ cup (25g) cocoa powder
- pinch of salt
- 2 oz (50g) milk chocolate, chopped
- 1 cup maltesers or whoppers chopped
- Line two baking sheets with baking paper, and preheat the oven to 350F/180C.
- Place the butter in a large saucepan (it will foam up a lot) and cook for about 5-7 minutes, or until it foams up and turns a dark golden brown. Place into the bowl of a stand mixer and leave for 15 minutes to cool down.
- When the butter is cool, add the sugars and beat until combined, and then add in the egg and egg yolk and beat until thick and slightly paler in colour.
- Add in the flour, baking powder, cocoa and salt and mix until just incorporated.
- Finally, fold through the chopped chocolate, and chopped maltesers/whoppers.
- Form the dough into twelve cookies, 6 on each sheet, and press them flat.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until cracked and risen, and then leave to cool completely on the baking sheets.
mmmm, my mouth is watering!
Mmm.. these cookies look very addictive!
These look really interesting, I love beurre noisette, it gives the food such a delicious nutty well-rounded flavour.
these look delicious.
A browned butter bender is basically the best bender ever. No intervention required. These look amazing, Sarah!
The malt in these cookies sounds like heaven! DYING to try!
I love you for putting malt in these! It’s an underappreciated flavor. Brown butter, I will continue to appreciate in all forms, at all times!
Those maltesers are a great teasers, LOL! Wouldn’t hurt if we had a cookie each and dunking it in fresh milk. Mmmm…!
Julie & Alesah
Gourmet Getaways xx
Way to knock it out of the park with these guys. They look AWESOME!
Thanks Lovely!
Once you start with the browned butter, it’s almost impossible to stop. Obviously EVERYTHING is better with browned butter, so why should you stop???
My sentiments exactly!
Holy Moly. That’s all I can say when you put brown butter and Whoppers in the same cookie.
Holy schmoly! Brown butter on fleek.
Whoppers are my favorite!!
brown butter, malt, AND chocolate?! 3 of my favorite things…I’ve been in a bit of an inspirational rut, myself. Hopefully the changing season will help, if not I like to browse though my cookbook stash to spark some ideas.
I’m a brown butter addict AND a major cookie love AND a chocoholic
…so I think you can see where I’m going with this :D
Ummm could these cookies get any more genius?! I’m swooning over the combo of browned butter and whoppers! Must. Try. :)
Well, one of the things that inspires me is you and your blog. I even wrote a post about it recently. But I also find that flipping through old cookbooks gets me really inspired to get back in the kitchen and try some recipes I haven’t made in a while or haven’t gotten around to yet.