on Dec 11, 2020 Come holiday season, you’ll find me whipping up delicious baked goods almost everyday. I strongly believe that it’s not really December if that warm bakery smell isn’t wafting all over your house. Who else is with me on this? And these Danish brown butter cookies right here are the perfect way to help you get into the Holiday spirit. There are 7 basic ingredients. The piping method is not too technical and does not require expertise, plus, piping the cookies is so much fun! So put on your bakers’ hats and let’s get started!
Browning The Butter
For Danish brown butter cookies, the most important ingredient is the butter, so make sure you pick good quality butter. The flavour of the butter should really stand out. We are using salted butter in this recipe, because we prefer these cookies with sweet and salty notes. The salt helps balance the rich butter-y feel of these cookies. The extra step in our recipe is browning the butter. We wanted to elevate this classic cookie recipe so we decided to brown the butter, giving it an extra flavour boost. This is a fairly simple step which adds a beautiful nutty flavour to the cookies. Allow the butter to simmer until it is golden brown in colour. Browned butter has more depth and intense nutty flavours when compared to normal butter. This is the secret to our version of Danish brown butter cookies!
The Cookie Dough
The cookie dough comes together easily. Make sure that you cream the brown butter with sugar till it is light and fluffy, before adding the rest of the ingredients. Sieve the flour and baking powder to avoid lumps. The dough should be soft and moist so that it pipes easily. When you make a ball of dough, it should easily hold its shape.
Piping The Cookies
Time to whip out that baking set that’s been hiding in the pantry forever! Piping might seem like a tiresome process which only experienced bakers can pull off. However, for these butter cookies, you don’t need to worry about finesse and perfection. Danish butter cookies, unlike the rest of the cookie world, come in all sorts of swirly patterns. I have used the star and round-tip piping nozzles for these butter cookies.
Richa’s Top Tips To Perfectly Pipe That Dough
This dough is way thicker in consistency than stuff that is usually piped. So we like to double bag the dough because you need to apply more pressure than usual, while piping these. Double bagging means that the piping bag with the cookie dough and nozzle is placed in a second bag. This prevents the dough from leaking and the piping bag from tearing.Pipe the cookies directly on a baking tray lined with parchment. The parchment keeps the cookies from sticking to the tray and helps to keep the cookies in one piece when taking them off the tray.Go on and get really creative with the piping and make various shapes. We’ve shown four different varieties but the possibilities are endless!Top the cookies with sugar or sprinkles before baking for extra texture.
Baking instructions are given in the recipe card. Watch the video to see my four different cookie shapes! These buttery cookies melt in your mouth and are absolutely binge-worthy. A box of these Danish butter cookies are perfect for gifting during the Holiday season!
Watch how to make Danish Butter Cookies Recipe Video
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