These are hands down the best Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies that everyone needs in their baking repertoire! Crispy and chewy, gooey and buttery, sweet but very well balanced with some sea salt on top. My favorite chocolate chip cookies!

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Chewy texture - My recipe will guide you through on all the necessary steps to achieve that irresistible chewy texture on your brown butter cookies.
Gooey and fudge center - Remember to watch your baking time and do not over-bake your cookies!
Wonderful flavor- I mean brown butter, brown sugar, chocolate chips...I never compromise on taste!
It's quick and easy! - Making brown butter is really must more hassle-free than you might think. My recipe is totally beginner-friendly, I promise
It's a detailed tutorial! - While this recipe might seem long, all the information provided here is to help YOU achieve the best result!
Ingredient notes
Gather these Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie ingredients and don't forget to measure them using a scale!
- Butter: Use always unsalted butter as you want to be in control of the quantity of the salt. I am using 82% fat content butter in all my recipes. Brown butter gives the most delicious deepness to the flavors, I highly recommend that you do not skip browning the butter!
- Sugar: For the best results I recommend using a combination of white and brown sugar (light brown sugar or dark brown sugar) in this chocolate chip cookie recipe. Their mixture contributes to both taste and texture.
- Vanilla extract: Avoid using artificial vanilla. There are several great brands for fine, pure vanilla, I use Nielsen massey which I love and really recommend
- Egg: Use room temperature as always
- Flour: I find the best cookie recipe needs a mixture of soft (pastry) and hard (bread) flour, they both offer different benefits in terms of texture, alternatively use All purpose flour
- Salt: An essential ingredient in most dessert recipes. Balances flavor and enhances other ingredients
- Baking soda: Makes cookies slightly risen, tender and chewy
- Chocolate: Use high cocoa content, high-quality chocolate which you would anyway enjoy eating on its own, and avoid using “baking chocolate”. I am using Valrhona or Callebaut in almost all my recipes, I found these are the most perfect chocolate chips. Please avoid using too sweat chocolate chips
🛒 You’ll find detailed measurements for all Ingredients in the printable version of the Recipe Card at the bottom of this post
Make the Brown Butter First
Brown butter (beurre noisette) is a classic French one ingredient gold that will take your chocolate chip cookies to the next level! It has a deep nutty, complex flavor and really elevates butter to the next level. Use it for making medeleines, financiers (French teacakes), or even on savory dishes like on top of grilled salmon, gnocchi, etc.
Making it is incredibly easy, takes 5 minutes!
Heat butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Make sure the heat is not too much; otherwise, the butter will just burn quickly.
First butter should melt then it will foam.
Then, white bits (milk solids) will start to appear on the bottom of the pan.
The brown butter is ready when the white bits on the bottom of the pan turn golden brown, and you will start to feel a lovely nutty smell.
Once your brown butter is ready, carefully pour it into a cold heatproof container so it will cool as soon as possible.
💡 Top Tip: Make sure you carefully watch the butter throughout the process, stir it regularly, and remove it from the heat before it starts burning
Make The Cookie Batter
Making this Browned Butter Chocolate Cookie recipe is extremely easy and quick but there are a couple of key steps you have to get right to achieve the right texture
With an electric hand mixer cream together room temperature (!) browned butter and brown sugar for a few minutes. Whip in the egg, just until combined.
Sift the dry ingredients; the two different kinds of flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together.Sifting is necessary to avoid lumps later.
Fold the flour mixture in with the help of a rubber spatula just until combined. Make sure you fold it only until the mixture comes together, literally 30 seconds.
Finally, fold in chocolate chips. Leave some chocolate chips to place on top of the cookies just before baking.Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and with the help of a digital scale divide the cookie batter into 10 equal cookies and place them on parchment paper leaving enough space between them to spread. Do not soften the surface of the ball, in fact, try to keep it as rough as possible for a nice, crackly surface.
Press more chocolate chips on the surface of the cookie dough balls. Now comes the chilling time. See details below.
💡 Top Tip: Do not use a mixer while making cookies and do not over-mix the cookie butter. Over mixing ingredients would result in incorporating too much air and gluten into the mixture
How To Bake The Cookies
You will have to chill the cookie dough for at least 1 hour and the main reason behind it is to avoid over-spread, sad-looking, flat cookies. The warmer the dough the easier it will spread in the oven and our aim is to achieve thick, crackly surface, fudge cookies. Alternatively, chill it for 15 min in the freezer.
There is one important trick to baking fudge chocolate cookies and it is not to overbake them. I know it is worrying to take them out when they look underbaked, but believe me, at the end of the baking time they won’t look done but they are, indeed. Let them rest on the parchment paper for a few minutes then carefully remove them to a Cooling rack.
If, for some reason, you forgot your cookies in the oven, check my how to fix burnt cookies guide.
💡 Top Tip: The cookies will be very fragile straight out of the oven so be careful while moving them.
Expert Tips to Make Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown butter will bring a delicious, complex flavor profile, please do not skip it.
Use high-quality semi-sweet chocolate chips eg. Callebaut or Valrhona, that melt well and bring a deep cocoa taste, not just sweetness.
I get the best results when baking these cookies on parchment paper or a perforated baking mat. I find they might get wet from the bottom if baked on silicone mat.
At the end of the baking time, grab a cookie cutter and apply some circular movement around the cookies so they will become perfectly round.
Avoid over-mixing and over-baking your cookies as that would result in a crumbly texture.
Sea salt at the end of baking is a must to balance the flavor and offset the sweetness.
Storage & Freezing
These cookies are best eaten fresh from the oven. However, you can store them for 1-2 days at room temperature if stored in an airtight container. Warm them up in the microwave before serving.
You can easily freeze the cookies either before baking (after you divided them into balls) or after baking.
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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
- Digital scale
Ingredients
- 140 g (⅔ cups) Unsalted butter that will make 125g browned butter
- 75 g (⅓ cups) Brown sugar
- 75 g (⅓ cups) Granulated sugar
- 1 Egg
- 100 g (¾ cups) All purpose flour
- 100 g (¾ cups) Bread flour can be replaced with All purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 200 g (1 cups) Semi sweet chocolate chips good quality eg. Valrhona or Callebaut
US customary cup measurement is an indicative figure only. Measure the ingredients with a digital scale by weight (gram). Baking is art but also science which requires precision and accuracy.
Instructions
- For the best results make 125 g brown butter using 140 g butter as per step 2. If want to skip this step, please jump onto step 3.
- Heat butter in a saucepan on medium heat, first it will melt then it will foam. It is ready when the white bits on the bottom of the pan will turn into golden brown and it has a nutty smell. Make sure you carefully watch it throughout the process, stir regularly and remove from the heat before it starts burning. Let it cool to room temperature before using it
- Mix in the egg, do not overmix or it will become rather like a cake, not cookie.
- Sift the two different kinds of flour, salt, and baking soda together then add the flour mixture into the dough, fold with Rubber spatula
- Before the flour mixture is fully combined into the dough add in the chocolate chunks
- Divide the dough into 10 equal balls (using a Digital scale is handy and place them on parchment paper leaving enough space between them to spread. Do not soften the surface of the ball, in fact, try to keep it as rough as possible for a nice, crackly surface. Let them rest in the fridge for an hour
- Pre-heat oven to 180 C / 356°F ( no fan)
- Remove the cookie dough from the fridge and bake the cookies for 15 minutes. The cookies might look under baked however they will set as they cool
- Sprinkle them with salt flakes to enhance the taste
- Store at room temperature
Karuna Singhania
Lovely recipe.... The taste, texture, colour is amazing...
Monika
The cookies turned out great! The perfect chocolate cookies recipe! recommended😀
SS
I made these cookies as a part of the Christmas goodie bag for my friends. They smell and taste so delicious!! Had a hard time saving it from my kids. Only after I promised to bake a batch exclusively for them, did they allow me to give these cookies away! Thank you for the recipe. God bless!
Eshani Weerasuriya
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies I have ever made. Everyone loved them. They were really delicious. And the brown butter played a huge role. It made the cookies taste like heaven. Recommend this recipe to everyone. It’s worth trying.
admin
Thanks so much for your kind feedback
Ece
I love the taste of brown butter gives to cookies, while you adding butter into sugar whole kitchen smells like caramel! I definitely recommend, everyone should try this recipe 🙂
admin
Thanks so happy you love this cookie 🙂
Hiba
The dough is amazing to work with and the smell is heavenly 😍 perfect recipe 👌🏻👌🏻 Thank you so much ...
admin
Thank you for baking my cookie:)
Marita Budge
I converted this recipe to gluten free as I'm allergic, and it was probably the best cookie I've ever made!!! The brown butter was amazing, using good quality chocolate that you'd actually eat regularly nade a huge difference. Definitely recommend this to everyone!!
admin
So happy for you:)
Danika
I just had a little trouble with spreading too much when they were baked. How do I fix it?
admin
If you read the post above the recipe card I provide great details on this topic:)
Danika
I made these for my boyfriend amd they were so freaking good! I love them and you should definitely try them. Salt sprinkling absolutely does the thing.
admin
Thank you!!
Simra
Genuin One of the gooiest cookies ever! Saving this recipe for eternity!
admin
Happy that you liked my chocolate chip cookie recipe!
Marwa
Can I add cocoa powder to the mixture ?
admin
Yes but reduce the flour by equal amount
Areti
These cookies taste of comfort and happiness.
As the recipe said, I didn't overbake and it was worth it cause even the following days they stayed soft inside. So simple and fun to scoop. Will surely be trying more of Katalins cookie recipes and show off in my stories!
admin
Thanks so much for your lovely feedback, so happy that you liked this one! Keep trying some of my other recipes too:)
Linda
I have tried so many chocolate chip cookie recipes and this is truly the best! The browned butter and the salt give it an amazing taste, I loved it.
admin
Thanks for your kindness! I really recommend to try some of my other cookie recipes too eg. the raspberry pistachio is to die for using a very similar base recipe just different topping:)
Jenny
Best cookie recipe ever!! Perfect goo to crisp ratio and the sea salt on top is an absolute game changer. Working my way through all these delicious, well thought out recipes 🧡
admin
Thanks for your lovely feedback, I am glad you liked it and yes keep exploring I have some more delicious stuff in here:)!
Jupiter
It is amazing. The best chocolate cookie I ever made. The brown butter adds a strong nice flavor 👍
admin
Thanks for your lovely comment, I am happy the cookies turned out great:)