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Chocolate-filled Cardamon and Brown Butter Tea Cookies

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Brown butter rules my life, as mentioned earlier. I am always looking for delicious recipes including this nutty treat.

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Adapted from these delicious bites: Brownie Bites

Chocolate-filled Cardamon and Brown Butter Tea Cookies

  • the resulting appx 3/4 cup from browning 1 cup of butter, cooled for 20 minutes
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamon
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • appx 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips

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Directions

  • Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
  • Combine cooled browned butter and sugar and beat at medium speed until smooth.
  • Add egg, vanilla, and cardamon, and continue beating until combined.
  • On low speed, gradually add flour until mixture is no longer crumbly and forms a dough.
  • Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Push a hole in the middle, fill with 5-6 chocolate chips and close dough. Place 1 inch apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until cookies puff and start to turn light golden brown, and small cracks form on the surface.
  • Immediately remove from cookie sheets. Cool 1 minute. Roll cookies in powdered sugar while warm and again when completely cooled. Store between sheets of waxed paper in loosely covered container.

Brown Butter, an unnecessary walkthrough

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I love to brown butter. It’s true. And so I made a walkthrough for anyone who is afraid of trying this easy and delicious treat. Also, I’ve heard rumors that  Earth Balance Buttery can be browned. I will try it one day and report back.

Melt one cup of butter in a small pot. I have done this with both salted and unsalted butter, choose wisely based on your intended use.

Melted butter over medium heat. Keep heating, the butter will begin to foam.

While the butter foams, I tend to swirl once or twice.

You can see the foam has gone (water has left the butter) and it is getting golden. Once you start to see the milk solids browning on the bottom swirl until deep in colour and then remove from heat and pour in a bowl to cool quickly.

Yummy, nutty, butter on the bottom. It looks burnt but that's just my crappy camera. Scrape all the good bits into a bowl and use where necessary.