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Orange DAIM Brown Butter Cookies

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Big changes have been happening around here, namely that I have relocated to Minnesota! I have had lots of spare time in the Funemployment that came with the move, but there’s been a lot of other things taking up my time that has made baking and posting drop a bit on the priority list. For example I’ve been visiting IKEA a lot recently! It’s only 20 minutes away, and I’ve needed so many things for the move that it’s become a very frequent stop for me. I’m at least getting better at finding what I need in the Labyrinth, but I have also burnt out on it in a way that only IKEA can cause. Anyways. One one of these trips, they were selling these holiday Daim bars with orange. I impulse bought some, because the IKEA dread was truly setting in, and I needed the hit of actually finding something that you KNOW will work.

Orange and chocolate is one of my all-time flavor combos. (This is one of my favorite cakes ever.) So I love that it’s a Christmas flavor combo – because I get to eat it during the best time of year. Smash Oranges have always been a classic, but these DAIM bars may be a new contender. And having the brown butter?? It never hurts. My mom tried these and declared them some of the best cookies she’s ever had. I don’t think they need much more endorsement than that.

I made the dough for these at the start of December, and then portioned them out and froze them so I could bake them incrementally. There’s a lot of cookies this month, so it’s good to keep their numbers down so none of them go stale. I made some to give to Molly in a little cookie exchange (that we can do so casually now that we live 15 minutes apart in the same city for the first time in like 8 years!) and then I made more when my parents came to town (which they can do in just a one day drive, and plan to do so much more now that they have two kidsand a grandkid up here!), and then some more after we ate all of those, and my brother needed to try them when he arrived (a quick flight from NYC, as we are all now free of California!).

So while I will have to wait and see if I can get my hands on these DAIM bars next year, these definitely belong in the permanent Christmas cookie rotation if I can!

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Orange DAIM Brown Butter Cookies

  • Author: Audrey
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Ingredients

2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks)
1 1/2 cups packed dark brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg + 1 additional egg yolk, at room temperature
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon plain greek yogurt
1 1/2 cups chopped orange DAIM bars
Maldon sea salt, for sprinkling on top

Instructions

  1. First, brown your butter: add butter to a large saucepan and place over medium heat. The butter will begin to crackle, and then eventually foam. Make sure you whisk constantly during this process. After a couple of minutes, the butter will begin to brown and turn a nice golden amber color on the bottom of the saucepan. Continue to whisk and remove from heat as soon as the butter begins to brown and give off a nutty aroma. Immediately transfer the butter to a medium bowl to prevent burning. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes or until cool enough to touch.
  2. With an electric mixer, mix the brown butter and sugars until well combined, about 1 minute. Beat in the egg, egg yolk, vanilla, and yogurt until combined.
  3. In a separate large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat on low-speed just until combined.
  4. Add chopped DAIM bars and mix on low speed until just incorporated into the dough.
  5. Roll your dough into balls (about 2 tablespoons of dough each) and either lay out on a baking sheet or stack them in a tupperware in between layers of parchment. Chill your dough for 2 hours in the refrigerator, or up to 12-24 hours. Do not try to speed up this process. The dough needs to chill in order to be perfect.
  6. Once dough is chilled, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place dough balls on cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
  7. Bake the cookies 9-11 minutes or until the edges of the cookies begin to turn golden brown. They will look a bit underdone in the middle, but will continue to cook once out of the oven.
  8. Cool the cookies on the sheets for 5 minutes to allow them to set up, then sprinkle each cookie with sea salt. Remove the cooled cookies from the baking sheets and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Makes 24-36 cookies.

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