Cookies with brown butter, pecans and milk chocolate
Cookies with brown butter and milk chocolate
Cookies with brown butter and milk chocolate are a perfect flavor combination. It creates a cookie that combines the best of the classic American chocolate chip cookies with a more complex, deep and nutty flavor. The mild and creamy 44% Milk Chocolate is in perfect company with brown butter and toasted pecans, which also add crunch to the cookies.
TIP: Also try the recipe at biscotti with almonds or cookies with edible flowers
Browned butter
The secret to great cookies is browned butter. When butter is browned, it gets a wonderful caramelized color and flavor.
When butter is melted and slowly browned in a pan, the milk proteins sink to the bottom and will take on color and flavor. In French, browned butter is actually called hazelnut butter (hazelnut butter) because of its caramel brown color and nutty flavor.
Cookies with milk chocolate
We recommend using milk chocolate for the recipe - preferably 44% - even if you are normally a fan of dark chocolate. Milk chocolate has a mild, creamy and sweet taste, which is a perfect contrast to the other elements in the cookies.
Alternatively, you can also choose to use a chocolate that is a bit darker - for example 55% which gives a slightly more cocoa flavor.
TIP: If you are looking for something sweet with chocolate, we can recommend the recipe for marcel orange cake or a chocolate pie with pomegranate
Cookies in the freezer
A good tip is to roll out balls of cookie dough and store them in a box in the freezer. That way you can take out individual balls of cookie dough and bake them, so you always have freshly baked cookies on hand. Perfect for when you have guests over but don't have time to stand in the kitchen!
If you bake frozen cookie balls, you don't have to wait for them to dry out before putting them in the oven. They just need a few minutes longer than if they were just cold from the refrigerator.
TIP: Also try one of our recipes for healthy cookies: cookies with nut butter or oatmeal cookies (both with chocolate… of course)