Everything you love about a chocolate chip cookie…. In bar format. These brown butter vanilla cookie bars are stuffed with milk chocolate chips, perfectly crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
I make 12 slices with this recipe, you can make your bars however large you want!
Ingredients
- 125g salted butter
- 75g granulated sugar
- 75g dark brown soft sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 230g plain flour
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 400g milk chocolate chips
Method:
- Start by browning your butter- cut into small cubes and add to a medium sized saucepan. On a medium heat, keep stirring the butter. It will go through several stages. First, it will melt. Then it will start to boil and bubble violently, before it will become quiet and the bubbles will become thick and foamy. Pay very close attention at this point as the butter will soon start to turn brown and smell caramelised. Take your butter off the heat and let cool a little.
- Combine your butter, sugars, egg, milk and vanilla, beating well as you add each ingredient. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar. Add this to your wet ingredients and gently fold in. Add 300g milk chocolate chips and mix until evenly distributed through the batter.
- Line and grease a medium sized baking tin and carefully push in your cookie mixture, making sure you fill all the edges. Pour over the remaining 100g chocolate chips. Freeze for 30 minutes or chill for 1 hour. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 180C.
- Bake your cookie bars for 18-23 minutes, until turning golden on the edges and set in the centre. Leave to set before cutting into slices. Let cool and enjoy!
Tips: I like to store my cookie bars in the refrigerator and then microwave them for around 30-60s before I eat them! If refrigerated, these bare taste best when consumed within 5 days. They can also be frozen :).
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