Recipe: Yummy Brown Butter M&M Cookies

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. Brown butter works wonders in dessert recipes, seafood dishes, pasta sauces and beyond. It adds a silky texture and a slightly nutty flavor to whatever you put it in and takes mere minutes to whip. Brown butter works wonders in dessert recipes, seafood dishes, pasta sauces and beyond.

It adds a silky texture and a slightly nutty flavor to whatever you put it in and takes mere minutes to whip up. You can brown just the amount of butter you need for a recipe or brown whole sticks at a time for future use. Brown butter is simple enough to make — you melt butter slowly over low heat until it foams and the milky whiteness turns brown and sinks to the bottom of the pan. You can cook Brown Butter M&M Cookies using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Brown Butter M&M Cookies

1. It's 3/4 cup of unsalted butter, room temperature.
2. You need 3/4 cup of light brown sugar, packed.
3. You need 1/4 cup of sugar.
4. You need 1 of large egg.
5. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. Prepare 1 1/2 Tbl of low-fat milk.
7. It's 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
8. It's 1 tsp of cornstarch.
9. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
10. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
11. You need 1 cup of M&M's, plus more for the tops of the cookies.

Two things are happening in the process. First, the water in the butter is cooking out, concentrating the butter's flavor. Brown butter (buerre noisette) is a classic French staple in the kitchen. It's melted butter with an accelerated flavor brought on by gently cooking it.

Brown Butter M&M Cookies step by step

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&M's. 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&M's 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..

It's a one ingredient wonder, vastly improving any dish or recipe where it's used. Add one stick of butter to a medium skillet over medium heat. All you're doing is cooking the butter just a tiny bit past the melting point. By doing this, you create this magical nutty flavor that you just don't get with regular melted butter. To make traditional brown butter, you simply heat the butter in a saucepan.