Brown Butter Snickerdoodles: How I Upgraded the Classic and Never Went Back

Brown Butter Snickerdoodles: How I Upgraded the Classic and Never Went Back

I burned the butter. Not a little — like, smoke-alarm, dog-barking, neighbors-probably-concerned level burned. I was so determined to finally nail brown butter snickerdoodles that I walked away from the stove “just for a second” to answer a text, and came back to a pan of what I can only describe as liquid charcoal. It … Read more

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies: The One Change That Made Mine Taste Like a Bakery’s

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies: The One Change That Made Mine Taste Like a Bakery's

I once set off my smoke alarm three times in a single afternoon trying to make brown butter chocolate chip cookies. Three times. My neighbor knocked on my door on the second alarm, and by the third, she just texted me: “Again??” I was mortified. My kitchen smelled like a campfire, I had a saucepan … Read more