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Brown Butter Biscuits

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baked, easy, recipes for cookies, recipes using brown butter, recipes using egg, recipes using self-raising flour, recipes using superfine sugar, recipes using vanilla, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ABrown_Butter_Biscuits)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ABrown%20Butter%20Biscuits&oldid=4515245

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 1 stick (125 g/4.4 oz) butter
  • ½ cup (110 g/3.9 oz) superfine sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2½ cups (350 g/12 oz) self-rising flour

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C (356 °F). Line 2 baking sheets.
  2. Melt the butter in a pan over a medium heat for 3–5 minutes until the surface is foamy.
  3. Leave it to cool for 5 minutes.
  4. Whisk in the sugar until dissolved.
  5. Leave it to cool for 10–15 minutes until lukewarm.
  6. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
  7. Fold in the flour until combined.
  8. Roll the dough into 20 balls and place on the prepared baking sheets.
  9. Flatten the biscuits with a fork.
  10. Bake for 12–14 minutes until golden.
  11. Transfer the biscuits to a wire rack and leave it to cool.