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Chocolate Cookies with Caramelized White Chocolate

Servings 12

Ingredients
  

White Chocolate

  • 10 ounce block of good white chocolate NOT chips
  • ½ tsp. kosher salt

Cookie Base

  • ½ cup butter plus 1 T.
  • ½ cup dark brown sugar
  • ¼ cup plus 2 T. granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 1 ⅓ cup flour
  • ¼ cup cocoa powder
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. kosher salt
  • ½ tsp. sea salt flakes

Instructions
 

White Chocolate

  • Preheat oven to 300.
  • Chop the chocolate into chunks and lay in an 8x8 baking dish.
  • Bake about 20 minutes.
  • Mix the chocolate and continue baking approx 20-25 mins longer while stirring every 5 minutes. Keep a close on it. Pour onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and spread thin with an offset spatula.
  • Sprinkle with salt.
  • Pop into the freezer 30 mins. Keep frozen until adding it to the dough.

Cookies

  • Melt 5 Tablespoons butter in a pan until the butter browns. (5-7 mins) Pour in a heatproof mixing bowl and refrigerate 30 mins until just about solid.
  • Beat the remaining 4 T. butter with the browned butter.
  • Add the sugars and beat well.
  • Add eggs.
  • Add dry ingredients to combine.
  • Use a bench scrape to add the white chocolate in gently-Fold carefully-it will ribbon into shards.
  • Use an ice cream scoop to portion cookies and bake on parchment lined cookie sheets at 350 for 8-11 mins. Do not overbake. Let cool and dig in!