Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins

These brown butter chocolate chip muffins are unimaginable! A bit extra wealthy and decadent than your common muffin, they’ve superb taste.

In case you’ve by no means added brown butter to your muffin batter, now’s the time to begin! These easy muffins are made further particular due to the flavor-loaded brown butter.

The best way to Brown Butter

We will’t launch right into a dialogue about these muffins with out first addressing an important half: brown butter!

Browning butter can degree up your cooking and baking sport like nothing else. And it’s really easy and quick. The truth is, it’s so quick, that you simply don’t wish to stroll away, as a result of butter can go from deliciously golden to burned in a matter of seconds.

It helps to make use of a light-colored skillet so you may simply inform when the butter is beginning to brown. Darkish-colored or nonstick skillets can nonetheless be used, however simply remember the fact that the darker coloration could make it tough to guage when the butter is finished (and it’s a bit simpler to burn it).

To brown butter, merely soften butter in a skillet and cook dinner over medium warmth, stirring always, till it bubbles and foams and the milk solids within the butter flip a golden, nutty coloration. It’s going to odor aromatic and caramel-like. As soon as it’s sufficiently browned, instantly take away the skillet from the warmth and pour the butter right into a bowl so it doesn’t proceed to cook dinner.

Utilizing Brown Butter in Muffin Batter

For this recipe, you need to use the butter fairly shortly after it has been browned. No have to let it cool all the best way.

Combine the sugars with the nice and cozy brown butter.
Add the eggs, bitter cream and vanilla. (You possibly can add all of them collectively, regardless of what my footage present 😉)
Add the dry components and blend only a few instances earlier than including the chocolate chips and mixing till simply mixed.

Sugar, brown butter, brown sugar in glass bowl.

This batter is thick and luscious. The truth is, at first look, it virtually seems like chocolate chip cookie dough.

However upon nearer inspection (ahem, and tasting), it is vitally a lot a batter that’s begging to meet the measure of its existence as a cute little muffin bringing pleasure to the hearts of any who partake.

Chocolate chips on top of muffin batter in glass bowl.

A Few Notes

Whereas undoubtedly comfortable and moist, these muffins are bit sturdier in comparison with different tremendous gentle and fluffy muffins. (I really like the feel of the crumb!)
Earlier than the muffins are baked, you may sprinkle the tops with a little bit of coarse or uncooked/turbinado sugar. Whereas optionally available, it provides probably the most delightfully candy crunch to the wealthy brown butter muffins. I extremely advocate it.
The recipe makes anyplace from 12 to 16 muffins, relying on how full you fill the muffin cups and the model of muffin tin you utilize.

Top down view of baked muffin in muffin tin.

One chunk of those brown butter chocolate chip muffins, and also you’ll know why they’re so irresistible.

Set aside by the determined brown butter taste, sugary topping, and cookie-like aptitude, they’re good for every thing from an after college snack to a flowery brunch unfold.

These are muffins that should be relished. To be appreciated. To be praised. They’re distinctive.

P.S. I believe they’d transition fairly nicely into mini muffins for a bite-size brown butter deal with!