Jesse Szewczyk, a food writer and cookbook author, has a new book out: Cookies: The New Classics. It's a collection of 100 cookie recipes, each familiar at its core, but boldly reinvented. Think: Campari shortbread, spiced honey rum balls, preserved lemon crinkles, chocolate-tahini bars, and these brown butter (+ bourbon!) snickerdoodles.
I have never met a snickerdoodle I didn't like, but these are especially endearing: the browned butter gives them a nuttiness, a trait absent in traditional snickerdoodles, and the splash of Bourbon enhances the caramelly brown sugar and vanilla notes — not unlike how the presence of coffee in chocolatey baked goods will heighten the chocolate flavor without imparting a hint of coffee.
What's more, because you brown the butter, you don't have to soften it, and because brown butter is a liquid fat, you don't have to bust out your stand mixer to make the dough! Win win. After you brown the butter, this essentially is a one-bowl job.
My kids gobble these up, and I have no doubt Santa will appreciate your brown-buttered, bourbon-spiked take on this Christmas classic, too.
| Brown Butter Snickerdoodles |
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Melissa Weller's Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Sarah Keiffer's Brown Sugar Cookies
Classic Cream Cheese Cutouts
Grand Marnier Chocolate Truffles
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Dorie Greenspan's Vanilla Bean Sables
Kristina's Molasses Crinkles
Melissa Clark's Rosemary Shortbread
Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Balls
Finally: Not a cookie, but a great treat to have on hand to gift or eat during the holiday season: One-Bowl Orange-Ricotta Pound Cake
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