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Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies with Brown Butter

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Delicious Brown Butter Cookies made with chocolate chips, mini chocolate chips, and loaded with lots of Cadbury Mini Eggs!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter - divided (1/2 cup, or 1 stick, will be used for the browned butter) cold and cubed
  • 1 cup brown sugar packed
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs cold
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla
  • 3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
  • 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 cup Cadbury mini eggs Any small candy with a hard chocolate shell will do (M&M's, Lindt Eggs, etc).
  • 1/2 cup crushed Cadbury Mini Eggs

Instructions

  • In advance, make the brown butter. Here's how: Take 1/2 cup of butter (1 stick) and place it into a small saucepan. Over medium heat, melt the butter, about 2 minutes. It will begin to bubble, then it will start to foam. When the foam appears, stay close and gently stir the butter until it starts to turn a dark amber color and smell slightly nutty. Immediately remove it from the heat and add the browned butter to a dish to cool back into a solid (I just pop mine into the freezer for 15 minutes or so). Make sure to scrape up any dark bits from the bottom - that's where all the flavor comes from!
  • Prep two large aluminum cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
  • Preheat oven to 410 degrees (yep, that's right!)
  • In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, whip up the butter for 1 minute until it's light and fluffy, then add in the sugars to cream together with the butter for 3 minutes on high speed.
  • Scrape down the sides of the bowl and then add in the vanilla and eggs. Mix again until combined.
  • Add in the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt and slowly mix together on the very lowest mixer speed until just combined (don't overmix!)
  • Reserve 1/8 cup of mini chocolate chips, chocolate chips, and a handful of mini eggs on the side, then mix in the rest on the lowest speed. Split the dough into 8 balls (baseball-sized) and place 4 on each cookie sheet. Hand-press on the chocolate chips and Cadbury eggs.
  • Bake for 7-9 minutes. They should be slightly golden on the outside, slightly mounded in the middle, and thick/tall, and gooey in the center. Let them cool on the pan for 1 minute, then carefully transfer the cookies to a cooling rack to finish cooling. Enjoy!