Thank you for indulging me while I wax on about butter this week. ย It’s like that time I wouldn’t shut up about toast.
While we’re here with butter on the brain, can we brown it and stir it into flour and sugar? ย I mean… might as well.
Now… Brown Butter (which I indiscriminately call Browned Butter sometimes) is this: ย butter that is melted in a small pan over low heat until the butterfat and milk solids separate and the milk solids sink to the bottom of the pan and begin to brown to a nutty color, flavor, and fragrance, at which point the butter (brown bits and all) are transferred to a small bow, honored, appreciated, and then stirred into batter.
Try to say that sentence three times fast.
I’m not just adding more dish and extra stress to your baking process. ย Brown butter really is the secret sparkle to so many baked goods. ย Brown butter adds a depth, richness, and irresistible nutty flavor to cookies, cakes, and breads. ย It’s a simple pleasure that feels like a luxury. ย I love when that happens.
Let’s start with a classic: ย Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. ย Bring these cookies to a party and I swear you’ll leave with three new friends, like it or not.
Brown butter and light rum happen to be the same color. Coincidence? ย I think not. ย
Brown Butter Banana Bread with Rum and Coconutย
Put strawberries in the mix before they go out of season. ย I love the sweetness of this bread. ย Slice it too thick, and then go back for seconds:ย ย Brown Butter Strawberry Banana Bread. ย
You already know what’s up withย Brown Butter Baked Doughnuts with Chocolate Glaze. ย
This recipe is like making cartoon doughnuts in your own kitchen. ย It’s like Homer Simpson is in the next room waiting for a plate piled high.
Savory, sweet, buttery and delicious. ย Some things are just right.ย Brown Butter Rosemary Orange Cornbread. ย Please note aggressive use of honey. ย Cool, thanks.
Butter in a brownie incarnation. ย Not browned, but still delicious:ย Ginger Walnut Chocolate Chip Blondiesย + Triple Chocolate Black Bean
Put some butter in your weekend. ย Also consider sleeping in, holding someone’s hand, two cups of coffee, and one of those 3:30 to 4:45 ugly naps.
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You are speaking my language of deliciousness!! As many cookies as I’ve had & made, I’ve never actually tried one with brown butter…..I can’t wait! Thank you for so much inspiration!
You’re making me want every single one of these at 1:36pm at work! Gosh darn it.
great presentation as always!
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Joy, I just made your brown butter chocolate chip cookies and they were simple delicious! Probably just found my new favorite cookie recipe and my go-to recipe. Thank you for showing me the joys of brown butter!
Yes, please. To all of that.
Great Ideas here!!! I am totally going to try the brown butter rum coconut banana bread. I’ve been making a version of shutterbean’s salted brown butter rice krispie treats but adding a little chocolate to them. I featured them on neurotic kitchen recently and they are getting a ton of traffic. On thing’s for sure, Joy, the people want brown butter so you are SPOT ON! Amazing work.
Does that mean we can change the normal butter in any recipe to brown butter?
haha ugly naps. x
My family loves butter. My daughter eats it like it is the equivalent of a piece of chocolate…savoring each bite. What are your thoughts on Irish Butter? We love it but haven’t baked with it. I really want to recreate the scones we had in Ireland and I was told that the butter was the key.
I love your brown butter recipes, they make me (and my family) so happy :)
I’ve made pretty much a thousand of those browned butter toasted coconut chocolate chip cookies that you have on here (and some of the one in your cookbook!), but I often wonder if a recipe calls for melted butter- can I just brown it and make my life better?
I’m making David Lebowitz’s French Apple Cake tonight and am tempted to melt the butter a little too long. What could go wrong?
I’ve been on a pretty good browned butter kick as of late, and I definitely blame you. I mean what couldn’t be improved with a little browning action? Most recently, pastry cream and cupcakes. Whoa.
Hi….. you’re not supposed to drink the whole sticks worth of brown butter are you? Anyhow, guess I’m off to make more for brown butter pancakes with homemade brown butter brown sugar syrup. What can brown do for you?