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    Home » Recipes » Desserts - Dolci

    Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies Old-Fashioned Goes Gourmet

    Published: May 9, 2022 · Modified: Oct 11, 2022 by Marisa Franca · 40 Comments

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    Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe strays from the traditional recipe to brown the butter first. The cookies taste rich and nutty with a crispy texture and a cinnamon topping. One bite and these cookies will have you sighing in content. They travel well and are perfect for picnics or lunch boxes. They also freeze well. #cookies, #snickerdoodlerecipe, #brownbuttercookies, #brownbuttersnickerdoodles, #lunchboxcookies, #picniccookies, #allourway

    We couldn't wait to share our Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies recipe with you! They're crispy, nutty, sugary with a touch of cinnamon. Throughout the years, I've made the cookies countless times. This occasion I decided to change just one little thing in the recipe. The old-fashioned cinnamon cookies went from delicious to AH-MAAH-ZING! See if these cookies don't have you jumping for joy. 

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    Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies on a white plate with a burnt orange napkin on the side.
    Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe is the BEST.
    First Published: November 08,2016... Last Updated: July 10, 2019
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    • Cinnamon sugar rolled Snickerdoodle cookies are classics
    • Snickerdoodle Cookies are easy and delicious
    • Snickerdoodle Cookies became a staple in our house
    • Snickerdoodles go gourmet
    • Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe
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    Cinnamon sugar rolled Snickerdoodle cookies are classics

    I remember the first time I saw the Snickerdoodle Cookie recipe in my Betty Crocker Cookbook. For a  novice cookie baker, the recipe was easy enough. I couldn't wait to make them. And once I did, I couldn't believe how delicious they were.

    Our Italian kitchen didn't have a lot of fancy baking ingredients, but it did have flour, butter, sugar, and cinnamon. I was nervous. I could make bread; this was entirely new. Betty Crocker knew that there were lots of newcomers to cooking and baking, so she made her directions easy enough for a child to follow.

    In those days I followed a recipe to the letter and never dreamed of making a Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies recipe.

    Betty Crocker Cookbook with the snickerdoodle recipe on the page.
    This was my first cookbook and it was a birthday present.

    Snickerdoodle Cookies are easy and delicious

    When mamma and papà arrived home from work, the aroma of sweet, spicy cinnamon sugar greeted them. They couldn't believe I made the Snickerdoodle Cookie recipe all by myself. Well, that fluffed my feathers, and that was just the beginning of my culinary journey.

    I pored over magazines like Good Housekeeping, McCalls, Lady's Home Journal searching for recipes, planning on what to cook next.

    I simply loved being in the kitchen. Cookbooks were like novels to me. I read them from cover to cover. They took me on cooking adventures.

    A brown butter cookie has a deeper flavor than a regular one.

    Snickerdoodle Cookies became a staple in our house

    When we were first married, Honey worked while going to school. He took his lunch and each week I made a batch of snickerdoodle cookies. There was never a crumb left in the baggie. It made me happy knowing how much he liked them.

    What I didn't know was, that as much as Honey loved the Snickerdoodle cookies, it was his foreman, Red,  that gobbled them up before nine in the morning.

    The foreman, who was toothless so I couldn't say he had a sweet tooth, loved sweets so much that Honey didn't mind sacrificing the cookies. It didn't hurt being nice to the boss either.

    What would the foreman have done with Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies? :-)Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies ordinary turns extraordinary

    Snickerdoodles go gourmet

    Today, Honey and I like to play what if. . . Several months ago I made a Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe with brown butter. They tasted heavenly. So I thought, what if I take an ordinary Snickerdoodle recipe and brown the butter in the recipe instead of just creaming it with the sugar?

    Let me put it this way; I'll never go back to merely creaming the butter. Browning the butter is a step that adds a remarkable depth to the cookies. You get a nutty flavor that you wouldn't get without the brown butter.

    If you're hesitant about the procedure, here is a great site that shows the process with lots of pictures.

    Don't be afraid to experiment; that's part of the fun. 

    If you're fond of old fashioned cookies that have stood the test of time, you'll LOVE our Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroon recipe.

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    Baking without parchment paper in convenient sheets, just like these, would be quite a hassle for us. We buy them by the boxful and they are such a time saver. All you have to do is grab one, put it on a baking tray and then slide  the tray into the oven. It makes for easy cleanup.

    Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies stacked on a white plate on a wood cutting board and a russet napkin below the plate.
    The entire family agrees that this is the BEST Snickerdoodle Cookie recipe.

    Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

    If you love a rich cinnamon cookie with a nutty flavor these cookies will soon be your favorite. The classic sugary cookie is even better when you brown the butter first. Leave in all of the brown bits that form in the pan because that's what gives these cookies that out-of-this-world flavor. 

    If you like this recipe, please give it a 5-star rating. 

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    Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies Old-Fashioned Goes Gourmet

    An old-fashioned crunchy, crinkly-topped, spicy cookie rounds that get a nutty flavor from brown butter. This is definitely a favorite.
    5 from 14 votes
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    Course: cookie, Dessert, dolci, Snack, sweet
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 20 minutes
    Cook Time: 10 minutes
    Servings: 5 dozen 2" cookies
    Calories: 842kcal
    Author: Marisa Franca @ All Our Way
    As An Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup butter
    • 1 cup white sugar
    • ½ cup brown sugar
    • 2 eggs
    • 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
    • 2 teaspoon cream of tartar
    • 1 teaspoon soda
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • For the topping mix ½ cup white sugar with 2 teaspoon cinnamon in a shallow bowl

    Instructions

    • Heat oven to 400 F.
    • In a heavy saucepan melt the butter over medium heat. Whisk constantly. The butter will foam and begin to brown; it will have a nutty aroma. This will take 3 to 5 minutes. Be patient and don't rush it. Pour the brown butter into a mixing bowl and let cool.
    • Once the butter cools, add the sugars and cream together with an electric mixer. Add the eggs in one at a time and mix thoroughly.
    • In another bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients except for the sugar and cinnamon. Add the dry ingredients to the sugar butter mixture and mix well.
    • Roll into balls the size of small walnuts. Roll in the sugar/cinnamon mixture.
    • Place 2" apart on parchment lined baking sheet.
    • Bake until lightly browned but still soft, around 8 to 10 minutes. The cookies puff up at first and then flatten out.
    • Cool on wire rack.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 842kcal | Carbohydrates: 114g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 39g | Saturated Fat: 23g | Cholesterol: 163mg | Sodium: 474mg | Potassium: 336mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 61g | Vitamin A: 1230IU | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 3.7mg

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