Burnt Butter Cookies

Burnt Butter Cookies

Ingredients

Makes 16 large cookies, or 32 standard!

Wet ingredients:

• 170g Shetland Butter
• 1 cup Light Brown Sugar
• 1 Shetland Egg
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

Dry ingredients:

• 150g Plain Flour
• 1 cup Oats
• ½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
• Pinch of Shetland Salt
• 1 tbsp Blyde Welcome Coffee (I used Peerie Spiggie)
• 1 bar Dark Chocolate chopped or chocolate chips
• Shetland Sea Salt - slightly crushed - for sprinkling on top

Method

1. Melt the butter in a pan and continue to heat on a medium heat. Allow to foam and change colour until brown. Make sure you whisk it regularly. Hold yoru nerve as it can go darker than you think without burning!
2. Empty butter into a bowl to cool down, scrape any brown bits off pan and include them. Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes.
3. Add all wet ingredients and beat together well with electric mixer.
4. Add coffee, pinch salt, bicarb - mix well with mixer.
5. Once combined add flour and oats and form a soft dough. Add in chocolate.
6. Wrap dough in clingfilm and form a sausage shape - cool in fridge for an hour so it is a more solid dough.
7. Line 2 baking trays with greaseproof paper and preheat oven to 180°C.
8. Cut up dough into pieces and roll into balls. You can get 16 large cookies from this dough or 32 standard size. You can freeze the dough to use half later, if preferred - but they will be popular!
9. Space the balls of dough well on the bakign sheet as they spread out when cooking!
10. Bake for 9 to 11 mintues, depending on size of cookies.
11. Remove from oven when still soft to toouch but starting to brown at edges.
12. Sprinkle with a little salt and leave on try until cool.
13. Enjoy!!!