Brown Butter Cookies

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Description

Using butter (NOT margarine) is essential for the success of this rich, but highly addictive cookie! You may need as little as 3 cups confectioners’ sugar for the icing; just stop adding it when you’ve reached the desired consistency.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups butter
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • ⅔ cup chopped pecans
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
  • ½ cup hot water

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  2. Heat butter over medium heat for 5 minutes or so
  3. until it turns nut brown in color. The foaming and bubbling are part of the browning process
  4. but watch carefully so that it doesn’t burn. Remove from heat; cool slightly. Reserve 1/2 cup of browned butter to make the icing.
  5. Pour remaining browned butter into a large mixing bowl. Beat browned butter with brown sugar until the butter is no longer hot. Mix in eggs
  6. 2 teaspoons vanilla
  7. baking soda
  8. baking powder
  9. and salt; beat thoroughly. Mix in flour and chopped pecans. Drop tablespoons of dough onto ungreased baking sheets.
  10. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven
  11. or until light brown around the edges; cool.
  12. In a medium bowl
  13. mix the reserved 1/2 cup browned butter with 2 teaspoons vanilla
  14. confectioners’ sugar
  15. and hot water. Beat until smooth; use to frost cookies when they are cool.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Servings: 60

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