Brown Butter Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Description
Dreamy cookies from Tieghan Gerard’s, ‘Half Baked Harvest – Quick & Cozy’. Coconut flour and sesame seeds are 2 ingredients you may not have on hand, and I also added in some large flake (unsweetened) coconut, but these beauties are worth the stop at the store! – enjoy!
Ingredients
1 c. (227 g) butter
1 c. (200 g) dark brown sugar AND 1/4 c. sugar
2 eggs AND 1 T. vanilla
1 1/4 c. (156 g) flour AND 1/2 c. (65 g) coconut flour
1 t. baking soda AND 1/2 t. salt
1 c. (60 g) unsweetened coconut flakes AND 2 T. sesame seeds
1 1/2 c. (270 g) chocolate chunks or chips – I used a combo of milk and dark chocolate
flaky sea salt for sprinkling when the cookies come out of the oven
Instructions
Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Allow it to cook, swirling it regularly, until the foaming has subsided and you start seeing a beautiful brown color foam up the middle – this will take a few minutes. Stir it, making sure to scrape up the brown bits, and as soon as the butter takes on a nutty smell and color, turn the heat off, and scrape it into the bowl of your electric mixer and leave this to cool for about 15 minutes. Measure and prep the remaining ingredients while you wait.
Preheat the oven to 350 and line a couple of large baking sheets with parchment. Add both sugars to your cooled brown butter and mix for a couple of minutes, then add in the eggs and vanilla and mix on medium speed for another couple of minutes until smooth.
Turn the mixer to low and add in the flour, coconut flour, baking soda and salt, mix until there’s no trace of flour (you may need to stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl), then add in the coconut, sesame seeds and the chocolate combination of your choice, mixing just enough to combine.
Use a cookie scoop (a generous tablespoon) to arrange cookie balls on your prepared baking sheets and bake for 10 minutes or until the centers are just set and the edges are lightly browned. Sprinkle with flaky salt if using, and leave the cookies to cool for a good 10 minutes on the the baking sheets before removing them to a rack to cool completely (or eating!).
