Maple Brown Sugar Cookies – Sugar Spun Run
Gentle and barely crinkly, these melt-in-your-mouth maple brown sugar cookies are made with all brown sugar and infused with cozy maple syrup. Recipe features a how-to video!
Heat & Cozy Maple Cookies
These maple brown sugar cookies are one among my all-time favourite cookies. Actually, I like this recipe a lot that it really impressed me to create my tremendous common worst chocolate chip cookies after I noticed how totally superb maple syrup tastes in cookie dough!
So heat, so cozy, and deliriously smooth and chewy, these cookies are good fall or winter cookies and completely belong subsequent to a glass of milk for Santa on Christmas Eve!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Simple! No mixer wanted, since we’re beginning with melted butter. Sadly this implies we should chill the dough, however I promise these cookies are definitely worth the wait!
- Gentle, tender texture thanks to a couple rigorously chosen elements (two varieties of brown sugar, cornstarch, melted butter) and my favourite cookie baking method. They practically soften in your mouth!
- Outstanding, however not overpowering maple taste. It provides a comfy and acquainted style that makes these cookies good for cooler climate, identical to my brown butter blondies.
- The dough could be made upfront and even frozen, making this recipe good for vacation cookie baking! When you want extra inspiration for Christmas cookies, try my 12 days of cookies email series.
Components
- Maple syrup. I’ve made these cookies many instances utilizing each pure maple syrup and plain previous Aunt Jemima, and I like them each methods. Pancake syrup has a extra distinguished, extra aromatic taste, and it’s far cheaper. However the cookies nonetheless style fantastic with pure maple syrup (and we’ll be enhancing the flavour with some maple extract anyway!).
- Brown sugar. I like to recommend a mix of darkish and light-weight brown sugar. When you solely have one readily available, use solely mild brown (all darkish brown could be too candy). Be aware that the one granulated sugar we’re utilizing at this time might be for rolling the cookies earlier than they bake.
- Melted butter. Beginning with melted butter means our cookies may have a extra buttery taste AND we received’t want to make use of a mixer (identical to my chocolate snickerdoodles!). Ensure to let your butter calm down after melting; including the sugars when the butter is simply too heat can create a greasy, unusable cookie dough.
- Cornstarch. I like utilizing cornstarch to make chewy cookies! It thickens the dough with out making it cakey (like flour would). I exploit this in so a lot of my cookie recipes, from my apple pie cookies to my pecan sandies.
- Maple extract. We’ll amp up the maple taste much more with some maple extract.
SAM’S TIP: Ensure your egg involves room temperature earlier than you add it. Including a chilly egg to the in any other case room temperature dough may shock it. When you overlook, pop your egg in heat water for quarter-hour or so to heat it up earlier than drying it off and cracking it within the dough.
Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the elements I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the put up!
Tips on how to Make Maple Brown Sugar Cookies
Make the dough
Soften the butter, then let it cool to the contact earlier than stirring in your sugars and maple syrup. Don’t rush this step, or you could possibly soften your sugars and create a brilliant greasy, unusable cookie dough!
Stir in your egg and extracts, then put aside when you mix your dry elements.
Gently fold the dry elements into the moist elements in 3-4 components. This helps hold the dough manageable and permits the dry elements to completely soak up.
Cowl and chill
Cowl the bowl with plastic wrap and place the dough within the fridge for at the very least an hour or as much as 5 days. When you pull your dough out of the fridge and it nonetheless appears too smooth, you possibly can bake a check cookie to see how a lot it spreads. If it unfold an excessive amount of, pop your dough again within the fridge somewhat longer.
Roll and bake
Scoop and roll the dough into 2-tablespoon balls. Roll by way of granulated sugar earlier than baking on parchment lined sheets till the perimeters are mild golden brown. The facilities will nonetheless look underdone, and that’s completely wonderful! We’ll let the cookies end baking on the recent sheets outdoors the oven for smooth and chewy outcomes.
SAM’S TIP: When you don’t really feel like rolling your cookies, you possibly can drop them immediately onto the baking sheet and sprinkle the tops with sugar as a substitute.
Regularly Requested Questions
Sure! You possibly can add as much as 1 cup of chopped nuts (toasted pecans could be tasty!) to the dough proper earlier than chilling. Be aware that if you add nuts to a cookie dough, the cookies typically don’t unfold as a lot. In case your first tray stays a bit extra ball-shaped than you’d like, simply calmly flatten the remainder of the cookies earlier than baking.
It would be best to freeze it after chilling, and I like to recommend rolling the cookies into balls earlier than you achieve this. I present detailed directions on how to do that with this recipe and just about each different cookie recipe in my put up on easy methods to freeze cookie dough.
Positive! You possibly can both swap the granulated sugar coating for cinnamon sugar, or you possibly can add your spices to the dough. When you select the second possibility, I might begin with ½ teaspoon and go from there.
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Maple Brown Sugar Cookies
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Servings: 24 cookies
Energy: 155kcal
Directions
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Soften butter in giant, microwave-safe bowl and permit to chill fully.
1 cup (226 g) unsalted butter
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Stir in brown sugar and maple syrup till fully mixed.
1 ½ cup (300 g) brown sugar, ⅓ cup maple syrup
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Stir in vanilla extract and maple extract.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon maple extract
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Add egg and stir till well-combined.
1 giant egg
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In separate, medium-sized bowl, mix flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
3 cups (375 g) all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoon cornstarch, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ¾ teaspoon salt
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Steadily (about ¼ of the combination at a time), add the flour combine to the butter combination and stir till fully mixed.
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Chill in fridge for at the very least one hour (might chill longer, as much as 5 days).
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As soon as dough is about half-hour from being prepared, preheat oven to 375F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
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As soon as dough has chilled, scoop into 2-Tablespoon (45g) sized scoops. Roll in or sprinkle calmly with granulated sugar and bake for 10-12 minutes.
Granulated sugar for rolling or sprinkling
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Permit cookies to chill fully on cookie sheet. Don’t put dough for following batches on sizzling cookie sheets, cookie sheets ought to at all times be room temperature or colder.
Notes
Storing
Retailer in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 5 days.
Diet
Serving: 1cookie | Energy: 155kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 2g | Fats: 6g | Saturated Fats: 4g | Ldl cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 64mg | Potassium: 54mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 199IU | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 1mg
Dietary data relies on third-party calculations and needs to be thought of an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will range based mostly upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking technique, portion sizes, and extra.
Initially posted 11/18/15 — Up to date 12/23/16 and once more December 2024
