Brown Butter Toffee Cookie Recipe + DIY Treat Bags
Brown Butter Toffee Cookie Recipe + DIY Treat Bags — Sharing an easy Brown Butter Toffee Cookies recipe (perfect for your cookie swaps) and DIY treat bags to gift them in!
I know, I know. We’re on a holiday dessert kick right now. But you wouldn’t really want me to withhold this Brown Butter Toffee Cookie recipe, would you?!
We may have missed the neighborhood Christmas cookie swap. But these are a staple you can always have on hand.
We’re even showing you a cute DIY for delivering them to your favorite people, with just a few things you probably have laying around the house!
We’re also introducing you new our newest contributor, Sprinkles For Breakfast! If that doesn’t sound Sugar & Cloth appropriate, I don’t know what does…
Ingredients Needed To Make Brown Butter Toffee Cookies
Flour
Baking soda
Cream of tartar
Cinnamon
Salt
Unsalted butter
Brown sugar
Granulated white sugar
Egg
Plain greek yogurt
Vanilla extract
Toffee pieces
How To Make Brown Butter Toffee Cookies
1 — Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2 — In a medium saucepan, cook butter over medium heat while whisking constantly. The butter will begin to foam, and eventually start to turn brown at the bottom of the pan.
3 — Once the butter begins to brown, transfer immediately to a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Let cool for 5 minutes.
4 — Add sugars and mix until combined.
5 — Then, add egg, egg yolks, greek yogurt and vanilla extract.
6 — Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
7 — Stir in 1 cup of toffee pieces.
8 — Using a medium ice cream scoop, place cookies on baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges of the cookies begin to turn golden brown.
9 — Take cookies out and immediately sprinkle with remaining toffee pieces.
Materials And Tools Needed To Make DIY Christmas Treat Bags For Your Cookies
Kraft bags — We used 5″ x 7.5″ bags.
Lavender or rosemary leaves
Pencil
Red, green and brown stamp pad
How To Make DIY Cookie Bags
For the tree:
Place leaf down on the green ink pad. Using a paper towel, press down to make sure leaf if fully covered in ink.
Put the leaf down on the bag, and use paper towel to press down and stamp.
Repeat slightly next to the first stamp.
Dip pencil eraser into red ink.
Randomly stamp ornaments all over the tree.
For Rudolph:
Place leaf down on the brown ink pad. Using a paper towel, press down to make sure leaf if fully covered in ink.
Put leaf on the bag, use paper towel to press down and stamp.
Repeat 2″ away from the first stamp.
Dip pencil eraser in red ink.
Stamp a red nose.
For the heart:
Using a pencil, lightly draw a heart shape on the bag.
Dip pencil eraser in red and green ink, alternate stamping dots around the heart shape.
Erase leftover pencil marks.
These treat bags are perfect for letting the kiddos help, are they not?! Plus it’s a cute way to keep them occupied and away from sneaking peeks at the presents under the tree.
Brown Butter Toffee Cookies
Brown Butter Toffee Cookie Recipe
Equipment
- Baking sheet
- Parchment paper
- Medium saucepan
- Mixer
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter browned
- 1 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp plain greek yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/3 cup toffee pieces 1/3 cup for topping
Nutrition
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a medium saucepan, cook butter over medium heat while whisking constantly. The butter will begin to foam, and eventually start to turn brown at the bottom of the pan.
- Once the butter begins to brown, transfer immediately to a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Let cool for 5 minutes.
- Add sugars and mix until combined.
- Then, add egg, egg yolks, greek yogurt and vanilla extract.
- Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
- Stir in 1 cup of toffee pieces.
- Using a medium ice cream scoop, place cookies on baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges of the cookies begin to turn golden brown.
- Take cookies out and immediately sprinkle with remaining 1/3 cup of toffee pieces.
Don’t forget to share your brown butter toffee cookies with us on Instagram using the hashtag #sugarandclothloves. We always love seeing all of your creations! Looking for more quick and delicious recipes? You can find them all right here with a few cocktails to go along with them!
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