How did that happen? One day your graduating college and the next! BOOM! September roles around again and your sitting on your behind at 11:00 on a Tuesday watching CSI:NY. There might be Ben & Jerry's involved. It's very odd, not going back to school when you've associated September with books and notes and Smith College Convocation for so many years but my new job is keeping me busy - very busy.
Ethan HATES the Fall. I put it in caps because he is really serious about it. When everyone else is winding up for school, ooOOoing and AAhhhhing at the leaves changing and drinking apple cider, Ethan is being a hater. So I made him these cookies:
Nutella or Peanut Butter Stuffed, Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
They look absolutely delicious. I know. They make you want a chocolate chip cookie at this very moment! Well you are in luck dear reader, if you have a little extra time in your day (and who really does right now?) for a cookie with a little something extra in the middle. Just think - you deserve it! Now at first glance you think, just an ordinary cookie recipe and it is... but it isn't because of this pesky brown butter aspect. Now let me tell you, browning butter isn't hard ... but it isn't all rainbows and daffodils either. After you've mixed all your dry ingredients (2 c. flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt) get your sauce pan out. Now if you have a stupid oven like mine, you'll have to figure out what medium actually means then and add 12 TBS butter (cut them as evenly as possible). Whisk this constantly until it has a nutty smell to it - sometime shortly after the frothing has subsided. Remove from heat, cool briefly, and add to 1 c. dark brown sugar and 1 c. granulated sugar. Add in 1 egg and 1 1/2 tsp vanilla. Add your dry ingredients and then fold in chocolate chips - its really up to you how chippy you like them. I do about 1 1/2 c. of whatevs mix of chips I have in the cupboard. Set this mixture in the fridge for 1-2 hrs. YES, THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT. Trust me.
Wait. Its hard, i know.
When you're ready preheat your oven to 350˚F. Take a spoonful of dough (you know the smaller one, not the biggest one in the drawer) and flatten it out in your palm. Add your peanut butter or nutella and fold the edges up to seal. Make sure its sealed! You don't want nutella dripping out all over your baking sheet and oven making a big old mess in there. Squash down a little tad and bake 9-11 minutes! (really only cook them for 9, if you don't want little hockey pucks when they've cooled).
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