I think what I need is someone to catch a grenade for me.
… perhaps someone to throw their hand on a blade for me.
Someone to jump in front of a train for me?
Wait. ย What? ย Clearly I have a problem. ย I can not stop listening to this silly song.
… and now I want people catching grenades. ย Please.
Actually, no. ย All I really need is someone to make cookies for. ย … and maybe someone to push a piano around Los Angeles for me. ย That would be… odd.
Just listen to the song… most of the words I’ve written will make more sense.
I’ve wanted to make chocolate chip cookies for weeks. ย For one reason or another I’ve been dilly-dallying with quinoa and scones and vegan cookies.
None of these things really removed my brain from chocolate chip cookies.
Yesterday morning I woke up and browned butter.
See? ย It’s literally brown. ย It smells just as delicious as you might imagine. ย The kind of delicious that you want to rub all of your body. ย That kind. ย The good kind.
Once the butter was browned, I knew there were chocolate chip cookies in my future.
I just had no idea how dang good they would turn out. ย I mean… seriously. ย I kinda impressed myself.
With browned butter and and AAANNNDDD toasted coconut, these cookies have depth.
If I had to use words to describe them (and I do have to), I would say these cookies are: ย nutty, toasty, chewy on the inside, crunchy on the outside, studded with dark chocolate, a total high five, and a pat on the back.
And they don’t bake up super flat. ย They have junk in the trunk… thick thighs… you know what I mean.
Make these. ย Catch grenades.
Brown Butter Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
makes just over 2 dozen cookies
recipe adapted from thisย smittenkitchen recipe
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and browned to about 3/4 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon salt (depending on how salty you like things)
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1/4 cup toasted coconut (I used unsweetened, but sweetened will work as well)
1 cup dark chocolate chunks
Place a rack in the center and upper third of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. ย Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. ย On one baking sheet, spread out shredded coconut. ย Toast coconut for about 6 minutes, until browned and fragrant. ย Remove from the oven, place in a small bowl and let cool.
Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. ย The butter will begin to foam and crackle. ย That’s a great sign. ย That means that the water is evaporating from the butter. ย Once the crackling subsides, keep an eye on the butter. ย The butter solids will begin to brown. ย You’ll smell the butter as it browns. ย Once well browned, immediately remove the butter from the flame and place in a small bowl. ย Removing the butter from the pan will ensure that it doesn’t continue to cook and burn in the hot pan. ย Allow the butter to cool for a few moments.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. ย Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment, measure granulated and brown sugar. ย Add the brown butter and beat together, on medium speed, for about 2 minutes. ย The sugar may still look grainy. ย That’s ok.
Add the egg and egg yolk and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. ย The mixture should become silky smooth. ย Add ย vanilla extract and beat.
With mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients. ย Beat until just incorporated. ย Remove the bowl from the mixer and use a spatula to fold in the toasted coconut and chocolate chips. ย Dough will be thick.
Cookies can be baked immediately, or the dough can be left in the refrigerator to chill for 30 minutes.
Spoon balls by the tablespoonful onto the prepared baking sheets. ย Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until golden brown but still slightly soft in the center. ย Remove from the oven. ย Allow the cookies to cool on the pan for 5 minutes, before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Store cookies in an airtight container until you can’t help but eat them all. ย Delicious.
324 Responses
These are delicious and amazing! Love your blog!
I just made these!! They are fabulous. brown butter may be my new best friend!
Can i double the coconut?
omg jtb – I made these as a treat on a finals studying break and they did not disappoint. This recipe got more decadent at every step. Not just 2 sticks of butter but browned. An extra yolk for good measure. A TBSP! of vanilla. Lovely coconut. I love how you really go for it. Delicious.
I made a batch of these cookies just the other day for a small work luncheon. I received many complements. Thanks for the recipe!
I tried making these, but my cookies did not spread. Like, at all. ??? Maybe I browned the butter too long? Anybody have any ideas? I think I’m going to tackle these again this Sunday– they look delicious.
I loved these! They looked perfect and the texture of the coconut was fantastic. They were ready to come out right at 10minutes, though they weren’t as golden as I had anticipated (when I left them in for longer to golden up a bit, they turned too dry). And unlike one of the bakers above, I actually preferred the way the second batch turned out after having been refrigerated over night. Here are the changes I made:
1/3 c coconut instead of 1/4 c
3/4 c sugar instead of 1 c
Used a combo of bittersweet and semi-sweet choc b/c I didn’t have enough of either
I did find the batter and cookies a touch crumblier than I’d prefer and I was hoping for more coconut flavor, so in the future I’m going to make these tweaks:
2 eggs
3/4 c sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 tsp coconut extract
1/3 c coconut
Thank you Joy! I have yet to bake one of your recipes and not be utterly in love with the results!
Hi, I’ve green reading your blog for ages now, and i’ve made some recipes with great success!
I made these cookies for a New Years Party for the first time, doubled the recipe and made really big cookies. People went crazy over them, I had at least 50 and they were all gone in 15 minutes, tops! :)
Made them again last night, normal sized, and again they don’t disappoint :). I did decrease the chocolate chips to 2/3 cup, because last time I realized I prefer more dough than chocolate chips. This is my go to favorite recipe! Thank you :)
And keep writing those great posts, you’re my favorite foodblog to read! :)
JTB, you rock my socks off.
These are wonderful cookies i have been making some very simmilar to this recipe for some time now. I use more brown sugar then white and add almond extract to the mix. The browned butter makes a big diffrence in the flavor of the cookie.
Delicious!! Mine were a bit dry, I think I reduced the butter to less than the recommended 3/4 cup, but so good! You have really good taste in all sorts of sweets :)
Hi there, I made these today and they were yum. However the cookies did not come out flat like yours any idea why that happened. Also next time I might add more coconut or leave it out altogether as it does not come through. The cookie dough tasted like caramel because of the brown butter.
Overall a great recipe…smiles for you.
Neev
I just found your blog today and I think I scrolled through about 6 months worth of recipes ^_^; this was the one I chose to make tonight because the cinnamon-sugar pull-apart bread was going to take too long for my impatient self! I ended up having to make my own brown sugar, also using your recipe, and the cookies turned out AMAZING. They taste like the most buttery, delicious toffee in cookie form. I loooove youuuuuu xD
these cookies came out great! I think I maybe browned my butter a little bit too long because the dough seemed a bit darker brown, but regardless they came out a nice pale color. Thanks for the recipe!
OH WOW! just got mine out of the owen, and they’re sooooo delicious!
Finally made these today after planning to for a while! I LOVED them… it’s amazing I even baked them since I couldn’t stop eating the dough. Mmmmm. Thanks for the awesome recipe.
The quintessential chocolate chip cookie! I used half whole wheat flour and half all purpose flour because that’s what I do and they still came out perfect. They will be my go to recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Thanks for the killer recipe!
Thanks for this amazing recipe !
Made these this weekend and they are outta this world. I only had semi-sweet chocolate morsels on hand. They worked just fine, but made the cookie a little sweeter than I’d typically like.
So stick with the dark chocolate–so worth it.
OK these were in fact delicious and by far the prettiest cookie I’ve ever baked. I am wondering though if I ruined the rest of the dough. I only baked half of it yesterday and refrigerated the rest… did I ruin it? The cookies don’t seem to be baking as pretty. :(
Cookie dough is definitely not the same when you refrigerate it and use it the next day. Even when you leave it for an hour to go to the store to get chocolate chips…yea, been there done that.
Just made these and they are DELICIOUS. but the dough was very crumbly and I really had to press the cookies into balls, then flatten them, to bake. Any ideas on how to make the dough more moist/why they came out that way?
I held off on reviewing these until today because I’m not sure how I feel about them. I think my biggest problem is that I think that they are too sweet- the cookies have an almost grainy-ness from the sugar. I think that the brown butter does come through and so does the vanilla, but the overwhelming sweetness bulldozes everything. I would have also liked to taste the coconut more. Not that they are bad or anything, I’m just picky about cookies.
This makes 17 recipes that I’ve tried of yours. My favorites so far are the Red Velvet Black and White Cookies, Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread, and Spinach and Potato Breakfast Hash. I loved loved those three recipes to pieces. But I’ve liked pretty much everything and I think some of the others just require tweaking to fit my personal taste and multiple tries.
Everytime I read your blog, it makes me wish we were friends because we have the same humor. Best Blog ever! You make the most clever recipes and everytime I copy it, they turn out amazing! Makes me want to have a nice glass of wine and bake and laugh and sing catchy songs like grenades with you :) haha keep up the good baking, girl!
OMG yes please.
yumm! I made this today! I love it to bits. lucky me, coz only me in the house to eat em all! :D
this is how mine looks like :
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150160938388414&set=a.456643443413.241465.610798413&type=1&theater
These are fantastic! Thanks for the recipe… so far, all time favorite. But I still have so many more of your recipes to try!!! Good job!
These are absolutely fab! started making them five minutes after reading the recipe….OMG the batch didn’t last long (go figure). This recipe card (yep, I still use ’em) has five stars on it. That’s a good sign.
These are insanely delicious and easy to make! i adored brown butter before, but this just solidified it. Thank you.
This could be the best cookie recipe I have ever come across.
My dough was crumbly too. We made a few using the crumbly dough and then added water to the dough to make them a bit more moist. Both ways were DELICIOUS! But the ones with the added water were more chewy. I don’t eat eggs so we used Ener-G Egg Replacer. That could have been why my dough was a bit on the dry side. Thanks for another winner Joy!
I made these today and they turned out perfect, and so so pretty!
These are amazing! I’ve always thought about using the browned butter and this inspired me to do so! I will never be going back, such a step up! Thanks!
These cookies are so yummy! I made some and my kids ate all of them. I had to make more just so I had some to enjoy :)
I made these Gluten Free and they are amaaaaaaaazing! Wow. Took them to work and they were a total hit.
My cookies: https://nutellaloveaffair.blogspot.com/2011/04/brown-butter-toasted-coconut-chocolate.html
Im about to put my cookies in the oven and i will def be back to write about how great they were. My dough isnt crumbly at all and i love that you dont have to refrigerate the dough! Thanx for sharing joy
holy delisciousness these were absolutely perfect. thanks a hundred million for the recipe.
I found myself with an entire coconut the other day, one that I had had for a while and posed a what-the-heck-do-I-do-with-this threat in the kitchen. So then you posted this recipe, and I tackled that coconut and made cookies! They were a hit among my friends (no sugar for Lent for me this year), and I’ll definitely be making them again. Well done. :)
I just made them and OMGOSH they are wonderful! And I made them gluten-free! Can’t wait to take a batch to work tomorrow and share. Thanks for the recipe!
Now I’m going to blog about them :)
Whoah… whoah… WHOAH. I just made these, and they were my first foray into browning butter. (Please don’t judge me. I am very angry that I waited this long to try browned butter. My goodness, it’s tasty.) These cookies bake up beautifully: warm, crusty on the bottom, but soft and moist inside, with a lovely crackled top. They are picture-perfect. Thank you for this recipe!
I would like to do these recipe, but my family don’t like coconut… Can I replace it by something else? Or just don’t use it, and in this case, should I change something in the recipe? They look awesome!
you can just leave the coconut out!
this recipe rocks! the cookies (without coconut) were gorgeous and delicious! thanks again
I like food.
I like cookie dough.
I like your blog. :)
My bucket list includes having a sweet cooking blog like yours.
But for now, I guess I will just have to stick to the eating cookie dough part!
Joy, I’ve been following your blog for a little while now. I actually subscribed to it on Google Reader so I could keep up with your posts. I really enjoy the way you write, and your photographs. Your photos are so beautiful. I love the way you set everything up in our photos like the yellow bird in this one and the vintage photograph..so cool!!!
Absolutely delicious, thank you! Next time, I’d double or even triple the coconut :)
These cookies are awesome! I baked them for a charity bake sale and blogged about it (https://bitly.com/fWWfJt). Apparently, they were a hit! Thank you so much for sharing. I love your site!!
Saw these in my feed reader, clicked to the post, printed the recipe and tasted one of the finished cookies (and had to force myself not to eat more) all within about 1 1/2 hours. SO GOOD.
I made mine a little bit smaller (25grams each before baking – yes, I am somewhat a freak… I wanted them all the same size and didn’t have a cookie scoop) and ended up with 49 cookies from this recipe. This number is awesome for several reasons: they are just right for a snack so I don’t feel guilty, with 4 dozen I can give half away and still have more than enough to eat, the 1 extra didn’t count so I ate it and there were no calories.
I’ve been a lurker but I think this is the first time I’ve commented. Thank you for all the great food inspiration and hilarious posts!
I weigh my cookie dough aswell! It keeps them all uniform and pretty. Considering trying it next time I make cupcakes… Too far?
Awwwweeesome in my best Oprah/Tarzan voice!
A year ago I made my sister brown butter cupcakes, to explain exactly how good brown butter is I told her it smelt so good I almost drank it. The next day she got a terrible tummy bug and said that every time she started to feel better she would imagine me drinking butter and get sick again. I haven’t been allowed to brown a single drop of butter since. I think it’s time for me to rebel, these just look too awesome…
These cookies are amazing, Joy! I made them for a Cookies for Kids’ Cancer Bake Sale this weekend and blogged about it here: https://bitly.com/fWWfJt. Just wanted to share and thank you for sharing! :)
I made them! That was my first experience with browning butter! Loved it. Question for you I fridged half the recipe and it is rock solid in the bowl. Should I try to roll it or scoop and hand roll? Thanks
You rock Joy! Found this site a few weeks ago and have been greatly enjoying both reading & baking your archives. :)
This is very similar to the awesome “Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies” recipe from Cooks Illustrated, my own fallback. Can’t wait to try ’em! For those who had crumbly dough: try forgoing the mixer if yours is cheap like mine. I use a whisk for the wet parts, which makes the dough shiny like a mixer, then I switch to wooden spoon for the rest.
why did i laugh out loud reading the first couple of lines of this post? i know exactly how + why you can’t get that silly song out of your head. it’s so funny.
as for the recipe. browned butter + coconut? seriously? where do you come up with this stuff. will be trying it this weekend. because any twist on a chocolate chip cookie sounds like a fabulous idea!
I just made these and they are amazing! My thick thighs are doing a happy dance right now.
Cookies with junk in the trunk? Bwahahaha!
I have made many a cookie in my days but this is the best one so far! The brown butter and coconut combo is amazing. I cut the sugar down to a scant 3/4 C of each and used 1C of whole wheat flour (with 1 1/2 unbleached) and it worked well and seemed plenty sweet. Mmmmm….so good.
Made these yesterday and they were fab. First time I’ve browned butter too. The smell was divine.
I’m so glad that I’m not the only one that has listened to that song more times than they care to mention! I thought I was all alone in that club :)
These cookies sound great, another for my to-bake list!
Best cookies I have ever made…thank you Joy!
Okay, seriously, I love all your brown-butter goodies and make them too often. But this recipe is out of control! I have made many thousands of batches of cookies in my life, but I have to give these the “BEST COOKIE EVER” title. I also added toasted finely chopped pecans. I thought I was going to die eating them. Next time, I plan to try toasted chopped macadamia nuts – you know, to go with the coconut.
We are SO on the same wavelength – I was just thinking this morning that I need to bake some chocolate chip cookies, and I have some coconut in the freezer that I need to use.
Thank you so much for this recipe (and song reference – my sister just sent me the link and introduced me to the song!)
-Camille
My favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe has coconut in it, but definitely not brown butter! Whoa, I know what I’ve been missing!! My sweet tooth is calling…
these are absolutely my new favorite. what a great recipe!
Amazing! I made almost the exact same cookies last week. I didn’t brown the butter, though… now I know. Thanks, Joy. :)
I know the spider may have moved on from it’s ceiling locale but this https://www.flickr.com/photos/tahini/4031740010/in/set-72157622500391733 might solve the cat on ground and spider on ceiling problem next time your 8 legged friend shows himself.
OH MY GOSH WATCH OUT FOR THE TRAIN!!!
I made these last night. Everyone loved them. I don’t think anyone had less than 2 (or 3 or 4).
These are my new favourite chocolate chip cookies. Awesome.
Yum, I love brown butter.
Browned butter?!?? In cookies!?!?! Oh Joy, You’ve really outdone yourself!
I made a browned butter plumb skillet cake once, and the decadence was almost too much. (Note the “almost.” I still ate it all.)
Thanks for the inspiration!
I am intrigued by this recipe. Especially the browned butter part. Do you think it will work it I try and brown dairy-free margarine? I’m not sure if it will taste the same never having had browned butter. What does the browning add to the flavour?
Browning butter adds… depth? I think it’s sort of like the difference between un-toasted and toasted spices or nuts : overall, similar flavor profiles, but a little more savory-ness and oomph. Did you try browning the dairy-free stuff?
I did try browning the dairy-free marg and it reduced the same as butter, but didn’t smell the same unfortunately. The cookies I made with them also didn’t taste quite right. Probably because I tried making them dairy and gluten-free in one go. I tried making a gluten-free flour version and a grain-free almond meal version. The almond meal cookies were okay but I think I’ll have to keep experimenting. Perhaps I need to just do a normal wheat and dairy version to see what I’m aiming for.
Thanks for the helpful advice withinseason.
I LOVE browned butter, actually, I just love butter…truth be told!! I can’t wait to try these cookies out!
Speaking of browned butter….’ya gotta’ try out these browned butter brownies….SO freaking good!!!
https://blogs.babble.com/family-kitchen/2011/04/06/browned-butter-brownies/
And is it just me, or would some guy catching a grenade for you just seem a little crazy?!?! I enjoy the song, I just think that Bruno needs some serious psychological help…lol!
Oh.my.GAWD. So yum. All you had to say was brown butter. I am working on a gluten free version of this with RUM. ThankyouthankyouTHANKYOU.
Rum! That’s brilliant! Any word on how the gluten free version went? I have a gluten-free friend and am totally curious if this would work?
So far, playing with flours. When I make GF goods I sub out flours and add xantham gum, about 1 tsp per 3/4 cup. Try it! Maybe you’ll beat me to it!
I always know I can come here for some good baking recipes. These cookies look INSANE and perfect timing since I have company coming in. But I also love coming here for the laughs… I must admit. You crack me up every time. And that song…no joke!
made. nommed. yum.com/awesome
Mine came out crumbly, too. I scooped them and pressed them. They baked just fine and are DELICIOUS! That word needs all-caps.
I’d also like to know what I did wrong.
I think I may just have to bake more batches. For science.
My dough was a little crumbly too, I have had that problem in the past with the sugar I use, it is less refined and in bigger crystals than regular white sugar and I think it doesn’t dissolve as well and so leads to crumbly dough.
The cookies were still totally amazing though, I didn’t think that small an amount of coconut would be noticeable but it was the perfect tropical hint. Thanks Joy :)
incredibly dry dough, didn’t bake up very thick as advertised/uniform/pretty, baked thinner when a little milk was added to compensate for the crumbly dough, poor texture (too crispy), good flavor, easy recipe.
made a second time with better results. performs better without coconut. cook 10 min and cool completely on sheet. cookies bake up as shown if baked on cool sheets. cover dough bowl with wet paper towel to prevent desiccation. veganize with Earth Balance and EnerG egg replacer, plus no more than 2 T soy milk if needed to shape.
Oh that is exactly what the problem was! I just bought this organic sugar from Costco and it does have bigger crystals. I’m going to have to go get some regular sugar and try this again. Thank so much!
Wait! My dough was crumbly too. But I think my problem was that I waited too long after browning the butter to get to the creaming-with-sugar part…it wasn’t warm anymore so the butter-sugar-egg mixture didn’t get super silky as it should have. The flavor was delicious though, so I’m with Rosa. Better try making them again…for science’s sake.
I would definitely put my hand on a blade for you. But your pushing it with the catching a grenade bit.
And i wish i would push a piano all around town. Not gonna happen.
But i do love you (in a bloggerly way). You make my face crack up.
What the…. how do you think up of these amazing recipes?! I have to try this.
Cookies with browned butter are the best! Awesome recipe joy!
cookies made with brown butter are mi favorita! keep up the good work. ;D
1. Thank you for linking to smittenkitchen. I’d never heard of the blog before and kind of fell in love with it when I read the “About” section and saw the line “Deb likes bourbon.” Woman after my own heart.
2. These cookies look amazing. I have a boy who loves it when I bake and think I should reward him for being so disgustingly sweet with these sweet cookies. Thank you for providing me with the inspiration to do so. (I’m sure he’ll want to thank you too by the end of the day.)
Sweetie, you can make cookies for me anytime!
The combination of my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe (I made them last summer and I haven’t gone back) and coconut? Im in! These remind me of the tiny chocolate chip cookies in a plastic tub from trader joe’s. The reason those things are so addictive is the hint of coconut. I believe these might be even more so….
Bruno is awsome.. and these cookies look DIVINE!! gonna have to make them but try listening to Adele – Rolling in the deep.. youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw .. it will be in your head too ! You could have had it all ~
These look amazing! Today at work they catered lunch and there were big cookies involved. And I resisted! And am rewarding myself by baking these cookies… will seriously try to eat no more than 4.
Actualy baking question though… your pictures look like you do not flatten them slightly or at all before putting them in the oven. Did those cookie balls bake into the beauty “test cookie” picture?
Awesomeness as usual.
These just came out of the oven right now and the last tray is still baking. Yum. Very good and the house smells great!
I love that they don’t end up flat like most chocolate chip cookis. And they are just as you (Joy) said it, “crispy on the outside and soft on the inside”! PERFECTION!
I went home and immediately made these. Then, after my husband and I ate an embarrassing number of them, I decided to bring the rest to work. There is now ONE cookie left. My coworkers have all sung praises of my cookie-baking prowess, and I’m pretty sure I could auction off the remaining cookie for, say, unused vacation days or something. However, I think I’ll just eat it myself. :) Delicious!
Holy Smokes! I just made these and they are amazing! I am going to be very popular at work tomorrow. Thanks for such a great recipe, as always!
Yep, it’s official: I would catch a grenade for these cookies.
I would throw my hand on a blade for browned butter.
And now I am officially going to jump in front of a train so that I can stop singing that song.
Browned butter makes the world go round.
This sounds great! I’ve been thinking recently that coconut would be a great addition to chocolate chip cookies. I used chopped hazelnuts instead of walnuts in my cookies and I think coconut and browned butter would make them even better. Thanks for the post!
I am compleeettteeellllyyyy addicted to that song!!! Isn’t catching a grenade for someone true love? Haha – scratch that, I think toasted coconut cookies are more my definition of true love. They look delicious!
These look…. BEYOND AWESOME! and I know a Man.. that Is going to LOVE eating them!
Thanks! I do believe that I <3 you!
and as far as the song goes.. I have been trying to get it out of my head for days… maybe if I listen to it a few more times.. it will go away! :)
yummy in my tummy.
You write about cookies with “junk in the trunk”. I love you.
I’m a fan of that silly song myself…and I’m almost positive I’m going to be a fan of these cookies, which I plan to bake up just as soon as I can! And then find myself a boy with whom I can share! (The cookies…not share the boy. That would be weird.)
I’ve only tried to brown butter once before (it was a brown butter glaze for banana bread) but all the little dark bits of butter…stuff? worried me. Can I just add them in or should I strain them out of the brown butter? I strained them for that but frankly, I’d rather save myself the step a dirty sieve. Ps- My fiance will LOVE me (even more) for making these for him.
Hey Amber,
Defiantly add them in, there is a lot of flavor in those little browned bits. And I agree with you about not needing a dirty sieve, I would rather clean almost anything else.
-Amber
That is so funny! That smittenkitchen recipe is my go-to chocolate chip cookies recipe, and has been for a while now. I LOVE them. When I read that you browned the butter for your cookies, I thought, “My smittenkitchen cookies have melted butter…next time I should try browning it first!” Looks like you had already had the same idea. :) These cookies are also excellent with some peanut butter chips in place of some of the chocolate chips.
I listened to that song like 500 times yesterday! I really really want a boy who’ll catch a grenade for me someday.
Oh man, I just read that comment above about the one-page recipe. Guess you really chapped her hide huh? ;) I will make these cookies no matter how many pages the recipe is! I was sold when I read brown butter, but the idea of some coconut in there just sweetened the pot. You’re the best Joy!
You read my mind! I was thinking last night, I need to look up a good recipe for cookies with chocolate and coconut, so you’re pretty much my hero this am!
UGH, it’s really important to me recipes are one page :( This is just a few lines too long.
It’s only long because she took the time to explain how to brown butter. Try copy and pasting into a Word document and removing the extra line breaks or the instructions on browning butter. Or just change the printing scale to smoosh it onto one page. No biggie.
No biggie? it was frustrating and was taking me forever to try it in Word (I always try that). In the end I had to copy it line by line. The title of the recipe was too big, w/o that it would have been one page exact.
Love this recipe! Made them yesterday. First time browning the butter was very cool indeed. My dough turned out a bit crumbly but somehow held together to bake and turn out very good. Any suggestions as to why the dough was crumbly? Thanks for great recipes always!!!!!!
I need to make these ASAP!!!
I’ve made the same chocolate chip cookie recipe for years….this one I HAVE to try…the browned butter and coconut peaked my interest. My daughter and I will definitely be trying this out by the end of the week! Thanks for sharing.
I am so scared to make these cookies, I will eat them all! 1st- I love browned butter so much! 2nd- I love coconut so much! 3rd- I love chocolate chip cookes so much! (lol) This may be my perfect cookie. Seriousley good stuff, I am only goin to make these when others are around to share, last time I made browned butter brownies I got myself into a very happy dark chocolate kind of mess :) I am proud of your creation too, yummy!
Oh man, I never heard that song before but it really hit a cord w/ me. I know exactly how that guy feels.
Anyway
I am not a fan of coconut, but I haven’t made cookies for a long time. This blog post is so enticing I think I might have to go buy some cookies and rub the delicious all over my body, or at least my belly.
These cookies look fantastic!! Nutty and toasty and chewy and crunchy cookies with dark chocolate sounds like some seriously deliciousness. I now want cookies for breakfast!
These cookies look so good that I’ll forgive you for putting that silly song in my head first thing in the morning. Can’t wait to make them – and I have all of the ingreds at home… :)
That song reminds me of Jesus :) These cookies look awesome!
Today, I went to the grocery store and sub-consciously bought chocolate chips and shredded coconut, not even remembering that I read this recipe! The cookie gods are trying to tell me something.
I freaking want those. Immediately.
i love anything with brown butter. well, anything except poo. :p can’t wait to try these cookies!
I looooooove me some coconut….. Must make these! And oh, what’s that! Oh….wait…..caught it!!!! (giggles)
I love Bruno Mars and chocolate chip cookies :)
LOVE.BRUNO.MARS! you’ve got good taste in food AND music. kudos!
These looks amazing, will have to try the recipe!
I heart that song.
So do you think the piano is the equivalent of John Cusack’s boombox in the movie Say Anything?
totally. just heavier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce6wISeJbkY
I heard this version before I heard the original. LoveLoveLoveLoveLove
I am just beginning to emerge from the other end of my Grenade obsession! I have listened to that song COUNTLESS times! The Billboard acoustic version is even better than the radio mix! Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkuoRGig4Cs
the keyboard player is wearing a backpack as an accessory! dude.. that’s crazy.
also… swoopy camera. swoopy swoopy.
i love bruno mars.
can’t get the song outta my head also :P
your cookies look delicious. i want to try it out. but i dont really like coconut in my cookie. can i just omit the coconut or should I replace it with other stuff? raisins?
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I am also not a fan of coconut, so I toasted finely-chopped hazelnuts instead. They were fantastic.
I can’t get that song out of my head either!!
Oh these cookies look awesome! I absolutely love adding coconut in chocolate chip cookies! Must try browning the butter next time.
I love that song but seriously why is he dragging a piano?
These cookies look like heaven. If they’re half as good as you say they are, they must be made and consumed
I am 30-years-old, married, with two kids.
And yet, my might-as-well-be-step-sister-in-law (say that three times fast) who is still in COLLEGE, says that my interpretive dance to this song is better than any she has seen on campus…and has inspired her to put this song onto any party mix cd (or perhaps they use ipod playlists these days?) at least three times.
NOW, I am going to have to make these cookies as well and see just how cool a 20-year-old can think I am…
Thank you!
That song is sad yet catchy! I’m detoxing right now, but as soon as I am done I will bake up these cookies and eat them all. They look delish.
Total YUM! I can not wait to make these this weekend! I have just revisited coconut after a long hiatus from the ingredient. I was positive I hated it, but after eating an incredible lemon coconut truffle that a friends mom made for her baby shower about a month ago, I’ve been obsessed. These seriously look spectacular!
Love hurts and those cookies look good.
my favorite part of that song is the “mad woman, bad woman” part…too f-ing good. i like my cookies with some junk in the trunk. i also love that song only so i can sing it at my friends and husband until they want to, in fact, catch a grenade…if only to escape me.
I could use a guy to bake for too-but one to die for me? Not sure those two go together as I doubt corpses like to be fed….Unless they are zombies but we’re talking about Bruno Mars and not Shaun of the Dead lol
So many Brown Butter recipes going around lately. I love it!
dreams are made of brown butter.
And to think I was planning on giving my oven a day off. Then you had to talk about coconut and chocolate. Oh boy.
I’m loving all this coconut lately. Yum!
I was literally contemplating making chocolate chip cookies with browned butter. Plus I’m newly obsessed with toasted coconut, so this is the perfect recipe! I might make half of them with some toasted almond too, just for added deliciousness. :)
Oh, I love this recipe from SK. It is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. Now I must try these, with browned butter, they could somehow be even better!
do it.
you should probably just buy the bruno mars cd. it’s epic-ly awesome. theres even a song on it called liquor store blues (and who’s never had those?) and a goofy silly song about getting drunk and married. that is fully addicting.
also, these cookies look awesome.
also, my favorite line in grenade is “tell the devil I said hey when you get back to where you’re from” it’s mean but so catchy and clever and some people seriously deserve that.
:)
ahahaahaa! i never actually thought about buying the cd! you’ve got a brain on you.
Oh my! Throw some of those toasted almonds in from the other day and it’s a deal!
i like the way you think.
Every single word in the title of this blog post makes me want that cookie real bad :p
Seriously, when I read the title of this post I thought, “You shut your mouth!” Which is, of course, my way of saying I can’t wait to make these!
How exactly do you brown butter? I’ve never tried…
Oh. My. Gosh.
This cookies look amazing! I’ve been so obsessed with coconut lately…these are perfect! Thanks, Joy!
Well now *I* have that song stuck in my head.
These cookies look grenade worthy. Yum!
i saw the title of this post and said in my head, “YES. yes yes yes yes yes.” i love everything about the these cookies and will most definitely be trying my hand at them.
for some reason I want to add molasses to these…would that be gross???
i think you should TOTALLY add a few teaspoons of molasses to these cookies!
Hi there – just wanted you to know that you had another reader. I’ve been following for a while now and love your writing style. That’s all – happy Tuesday!
So what I just learned is this: brown butter is like condensed butter, yes? So what you’ve telling me is that butter can change it’s color and somehow become un-butter-like? Woah. Total Home Ec. lesson…
I enjoy a cookie with a little junk in the trunk :) These sound fantastic with the coconut and brown butter, I must give them a try!
Not kidding; I was thinking, man, those are some lovely cookies. So thick and round! I need to compare them to my crispy chewy recipe and see where I’m going wrong. And then: OH? Obviously, brown butter and coconut are the answer!
Just made these. They are all that you describe them to be. I would not change a thing. Thanks for a great recipe!
you’re quick!!
ahhhhh yummmyy!! they look so perfect and delicious. They should be displayed on a cookie shop window :)
Yeah I see what you mean, this song can easily become addictive! As well as these cookies!! Nothing is worth good ol’ chocolate chip cookies!
You and the guy who’s gonna catch a grenade for you will find each other. It’s just a matter of time. :) Your cookies look and sound amazing! So does that pan with the bits of browned butter clinging to it. Wanna know a secret? I’d be all over that pan…sop up the butter with a piece of bread. Yummmm!!! :)
just so you know.. i’m not worried about guys or guys catching grenades. all is well.
I just made chocolate chip cookies yesterday after a 2-month drought, and now you have me wanting to make another batch! I just have one problem: I’m allergic to coconut. Any suggestions on what I can sub it with to keep the junk-in-the-trunk consistency? Because I am all over that browned-butter-cookie idea. Help, please!
I’d try oatmeal!
Toasted sliced almonds maybe?
I love the oatmeal idea, and my husband would do many a miserable chore for me if I baked him something with almonds (especially if they’re toasted). Thanks for the ideas! :)
I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve never browned butter before. I know! With these cookies in mind though, it’s high time I brown some butter!
Thanks :)
i know! don’t worry- i have NEVER browned butter before either- the idea of it scares me. not just the possibility of messing up, but the possibility of it being so good and yummy that i’ll end up eating it in everything and fighting with my cat over it. yeah. now that’s dangerous.
but these cookies can catch grenades! so can bruno. on mars. ha-ha :P
once you get the hang of browning butter, you’ll find an excuse to put it in absolutely everything!
I am SO making these today, as soon as possible. I’m sure they’re delicious, and the house will smell amazing when they’re done! :)
Take a bullet for these cookies? Jump in front of a train for these cookies? I think I will.
I also love that song!!! I want to bake these cookies to that song, and then eat them right off the tray!
These sound great! Adding toasted coconut to chocolate chip cookies sounds amazing!
my boss makes browned butter chocolate chip cookies a lot, they are out of this world. adding toasted coconut really seems like the right thing to do. i might have to make these this week.
Joy…Joy Joy Joy…you keep making these delicious-looking cookies…which I make…and are delicious…and it’s getting harder to keep my girlish figure. Not your problem, I know.
And yeah you did the breakfast quinoa so that’s healthy, and omg was the brussels sprouts salad somethin wacky good…so I’m not complaining, no. But girl…
Btw, I made those cappuccino cookies subbing a mushy banana for a third of the butter, and hot damn if they didn’t end up tasting like bananas foster-with-coffee cookies. I’m definitely going to make them all-butter next time, but my friends went nuts for the banana variation. Thanks, Joy!
Grenades, blades, piano-pulling…it’s a heavy song. Prefer your cookies to such angst! They look delicious.
Your recipes are kind of blowing me away lately. I just can’t get enough :)
Well its better than the kiddie version of Big Rock Candy Mountain thats been running through my head for 3 days. I’d gladly sing about grenades…and bullets to the brain!
OH NO! you just put that stupid song in my head!
want these!!
sweet! i just finished all my coconut cookies and im feeling the withdrawal lolol these are a must make!
YES!! I’m addicted to that song too. He has another good song too, which I’m sure you’ve heard. “Just the Way You Are” …so very sweet. :)
umm…these cookies sound utterly delish. I’m gonna make them soon…and my family will enjoy them. ;) Thanks, Joy!!
Hi Joy! These look so yummy, I really want to make them! Unfortunately I am stand mixerless, is it better to do the mixing by hand or use a hand mixer? I’m afraid I would pulverize it with a hand mixer. Guidance would be much appreciated :)
you can totally just use a hand mixer or a bowl and wooden spoon. just cream the butter and sugar until well blended. the sugar will still look a little grainy, but it will smooth out once you add the eggs! happy baking!
Those cookies look amazing, but can they materialize before my eyes? That’s what I need a cookie to do.
these look GORgeous. looks like me and these cookies have something in common–no matter how many times I run around the marina, i’ve still got some junk in the trunk. just gotta embrace it.
embrace the junk. embrace the trunk.
Bruno Mars– hot or not? I can’t decide.
now THAT’S the question. i dunno. i’m still on the fence.
I feel I could make a more informed decision if I could figure out how old he is? He has kind of a tiny face..!
I’m oddly attracted to him…mostly when he’s in a suit with that rat pack vibe ala the grammys
Love the toasted coconut theme that has been appearing in your last few recipes!!! And that first picture is amazing; I love all the colors and the springy, Eastery look of it. :)
These sound heavenly! Gorgeous!
ok, i was so distracted by the videos, i forgot to mention that these cookies look AMAZING!
I went for a long bike ride today, then I made these cookies.
I’m pretty sure that cancels each other out. :)
They were super yummtacular, I Loved the toasted coconut.
I totally love that song! And I think I love these cookies too, even though we’ve only just been introduced. It’s like love at first sight. :)
I have been following for a while… I LOVE you! The recipes are always yummy and the way you write is very entertaining. Can’t wait to try a new choc chip recipe since I make the same old one almost weekly… Well, I did when I was pregnant… :)
I’m so greedy and your blog is delicious.
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If I asked my husband to push/pull a piano or catch a grenade for me – he would look at me and then LAUGH!! So for that he is getting these cookies and I’m going to leave the coconut in but not tell him. Though he is also the guy that introduced this song to me (it is sweet/sad/weird): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXBI2_zH9Js he has his moments.
Joy! I have that chick in your picture. Yes, that cute yellow one that is useful for everything from pouring syrup to replenishing the water in my iron! Oh and I love the idea of these cookies–coconut isn’t my favorite but I will give them a try!
*throw their head on a blade for ya… (think guillotine, lol)
Luv that song! :)
Luv your cookies. Come to Canada and bake for me :) Let the snow be your next insipiration!
Sensational cookies. Browned butter always gives that edge to anything.
Anything is always better with browned butter! That should be a new catchphrase. My first experience with it was making a brown butter hazelnut cake and I look forward to do making more brown butter recipes now with this one.
This recipe is almost like a thriller – starts off with a bang with browned butter, rises to its climax with toasted coconut, and ends in a whirlwind of chocolate.
I have been dying to try something with brown butter! I think I just need to go ahead and do it :) Thanks for sharing this!
I really want to make these, but my husband is one of the coconut averse. Silly man.
Maybe I will make a half and half batch and just add the coconut in to some of them.
good thinkin!
Love that you’ve been working with coconut recently…I adore chocolate + coconut. Mounds are my favorite thing – EVER. Can’t wait to give these cookies a try. Thanks Joy!
Darling I would catch a grenade for these.
Also, browned butter is awesome. After the first time I browned butter, I have never just melted butter again.
Ooooohhhhh….browned butter. I was craving chocolate chip cookies so much the other night that it made me sad and pouty that I didn’t have choc. chips or chunks or anything in the house! THEN I realized that we had some leftover favors from our one-year old friend’s birthday party. Chocolate lions!! Woo-hoo! Chopped those suckers up and threw them right into some cookie batter! :)
Thanks for what appears to be another scrumptious recipe, Joy! AND a funny new song to listen to! :)
Browned butter just takes things to the next level, doesn’t it? I also love Smitten Kitchen’s Rice Krispie Treats with browned butter – WOW! It makes such a difference!
p.s. Loving the little chickie in the photo…
Lol, the song! I work at a small Christian university. A couple of weeks ago, my very buttoned up, middle-aged, conservative boss came into my office to use the copier. While standing there, he started singing that song. I almost fell out of my chair! A week later he asked me if I liked Rihanna’s new song “S&M.” Wow.
I love browned butter. and coconut. and crunchy-on-the-outside chewy-on-the-inside cookies.
I might need to pull a piano across LA to burn off all the calories I’d be eating if I bake these.
Swoon~I’ve had chocolate chip cookies on the brain for weeks. This just might send me over the edge into baking them.
coconut is the best! Chocolate makes it better and I love the browned butter touch.
hahaha! I hear that song daily and in spin class…it sticks with you! Can’t wait to make these cookies for my friends! Thanks :)
That song is borderline annoying and amazing all at once. I think it’s because the radio plays it CONSTANTLY. These cookies on the other hand are only amazing. Browned butter should be put in everything it is that good. I’ve said it before, I could bathe in that stuff.
your tablescape makes me want to dance!!
you totally just said tablescape.
I’m kind of a huge nerd. Slash wannabe intetior designer.
SNAP! These are going in the oven today.
Cheerio!
Those look so dang dreamy. I want them for myself right now.
It’s so good to know that I’m not alone…I, too, have fallen under the spell of “Grenade.”
I’ll feel better if you tell me that prior to this song, you were also bewitched by and unable to get away from Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” and Lady Gaga/Beyonce’s “Telephone.”
What a georgeous picture!
I LOVE that song!!! I seriously had it in my head for days also, and when I proposed to my boyfriend that he should catch a grenade for me.. I got the remark, …”what a stupid song, have you heard the lyrics?!”
I was like YEAH and they’re awesome!
Yum, yum and yum on the cookies. I need something to bake for Easter, these could be it?? Any other ideas also, I was thinking hot cross buns? If you fancy giving them a try and letting me completely abuse you and use your expertise and awesomeness to try them out first, I would very much appreciate it??!
Love you Joy!
xx
The look amazing. I think I’ll make them tonight.
oh these look and sound delicious! i love your blog!
These look so delicious. I’m starting project cook-everything-in-the-house-because-we’re-about-to-move. These cookies have a lot of ingredients on my to-be-cooked list.
Win win. Winning.
If someone made browned butter perfume, I’d wear it. It’s my weakness, and I will try to brown butter whenever I can or if I find a delicious recipe like this, it’s a must try!
I love your post! I’ve been hearing this song a lot, too. Hey, it’s catchy. I’m definitely going to try making these cookies. Love chocolate chip cookies and finding new variations.
Jeez, I’m going for a no-sugar week, but you are making it really hard to stick to the program.
These cookies look perfect – in every way. Perfectly round, crackled, slightly risen…Quick question though, did you chill the dough or bake right away? You said we could do both, but I imagine the texture is quite different when the dough is chilled.
My daughters (5, 6, and 8) love that song and sing it all the time. I like it too just not at 6 am. Perhaps if I make some of these cookies they’ll wait until a reasonable hour to sing. But I do admit that I love hearing their little voices sing these lyrics. Imagine a 5-year old falling on a grenade.
Oooh, these cookies look amazing. I think I need to get to know them.
But in other news, I absolutely hate that song. Hate it hate it hate it hate it. Which is unfortunate, because the radio where I live plays it at least every 20 minutes or so. Drives me absolutely insane.
heart you!
i love my a good junk-in-the-trunk cookie…sounds perfect!
wow – browned butter AND toasted coconut in my favorite type of cookies? Definitely trying this – gotta love ’em thick thighs ;p
I looove that song – I love bruno mars. *swooOOoon*
U should totally look up this parody version though as it’s so funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdbHiDnbhb0
brown butter cookies look incredible. I like the thick-thighed kinda cookie what with me being a thick-thighed kinda girl…
Funny video!!!
I have such a little-girl type crush on Bruno Mars too… I always pretend he’s singing to me, hahaha!
that parody is hilarious! and also, pretty accurate- my husband always says he would die for me (he’s awesome ;) ), but then looks super dejected when he has to hang up a few paintings on the wall! i think all of these grand-gesture, romantic lyrics and movies, really overlook the everyday things that will really make a girl feel loved. the girl in the parody says something like: “instead of promising those things you’ll never have to do”. so true. in any case, the original video is very, very sexy.
” They have junk in the trunkโฆ thick thighsโฆ you know what I mean.”
Oh, I love you!
These look amazing and thank you for always making me laugh and drool, allin one.
I think I’m missing out on a whole world of brown butter desserts. I need to get on that asap.
I’ve been depressed about exams but your website cheers me up so. Can’t wait to make these! (:
looks delicious!! :)
Mmmm…I did this the other day but made my cookies with cane sugar and chunks of vanilla fudge. Brown butter is completely awesome.
Magically breaking picture frames are always a gold star in my book. Also, my friends and i have discussed this in depth – clearly mr. bruno is also magical because lugging that piano all throughout LA in a suit and not a single drop of sweat?! magic. pure magic.
Its the first time I’ve seen coconut used in choc chunk cookies, it would be awesome. I generally prefer coconut with white/milk chocolate but I suppose toasted will go well with dark chocolate
oh, man. joy, why do you do this to me? i was just thinking about doing pilates, but now i might bake these cookies instead (because doing both isn’t an option somehow…)!
browned butter is my kryptonite!
Great adaptation, I will surely try them!
I’ve been following your blog for over a year now, and every recipe i’ve tried has worked perfectly! And oh my god I spent the entire day yesterday all over yours and other foodblogs looking at recipes for chocolate chip cookies!!! and I kept wondering, why can’t I find a recipe with browned butter in chocolate chip cookies?? Especially on your blog, since you love it so much ;). It’s like you’ve read my mind! I’m definitely trying these soon! (without the coconut though because I’ve never liked it). Thanks and keep on posting these fabulous recipes! You’re my favourite foodblog!
Ooo, I did this (minus the coconut) with Alton Brown’s chewy recipe since brown butter is the best. I ended up freezing most of the dough balls, but then my friend and I finished them off as is. oops…but not. These look fantastic, and I’m intrigued by the coconut!
I like that guy’s hair, by the way.
A batch of these coming up this weekend I feel. Coconut AND chocolate AND brown butter!
I love that song, I admit it. Also, until I read this, I thought it was “throw my head on a plate” not “hand on a blade”…I googled the lyrics, and you are right.
I like my version better. (like a lot better. hmph.)
Also, the cookies look scrumptious. And browned butter is HEALTHY- it’s BROWN! like “whole-grain” butter or something, right? :)
hahahaa! throw my head on a plate is hilarious!
I thought it was head on a plate, too!! ahahah, can’t stop to sing this silly song either!!
HAH, I laughed out loud when I read this.
Francesca, that’s awesome!!!!!! I like your version WAY better:) ha!
Joy, I love you and you are awesome! (Just thought you should know!)
I’ve been lurking on your blog for quite some time but I decided to come out of my silence. I too have been itching to make chocolate chip cookies and just haven’t gotten around to it yet, :-( but these look awesome and I have to make them. I seem to be out of butter (ACK!) but that is something I’m going to remedy, here at 2:30 in the morning! Nothing like a trip to the store and then baking in the middle of the night! :-)
Thank you!