Chewy Hazelnut Brown Butter Sugar Cookies

Name: Chewy Hazelnut Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
Yield: Makes 2 dozen cookies
Ingredients: 2 1/4 cups (11 1/4 ounces; 319 grams), unbleached all-purpose flour; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces; 298 grams), sugar, plus 1/3 cup for rolling; 1/4 cup, cup finely chopped toasted hazelnuts; 2 ounces (57 grams), cream cheese, cut into 8 pieces; 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick), unsalted butter; 1/3 cup, vegetable oil; 2 tablespoons, milk; 1 , large egg

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2010

Desserts or Baked Goods

Holiday

Everyone thinks it’s easy to make classic buttery-tasting sugar cookies that are crisp at the edges and chewy in the center. Everyone is wrong.

SERVESMakes 2 dozen cookies

TIME1¼ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling

Chewy Hazelnut Brown Butter Sugar Cookies

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For the satisfying chew we crave in sugar cookies, we melted the butter to free up its water content and also replaced some of the butter with vegetable oil for a higher proportion of unsaturated fat. For sophisticated, grown-up flavor, we ...

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