Brown Butter Cinnamon Crinkle Cookies are easy, flavor-packed crinkle cookies that melt in your mouth. Brown butter and cinnamon combine to make a true cozy cookie!
Why These Brown Butter Crinkle Cookies Are A MUST MAKE!
- Comforting and classic! These easy crinkle cookies are like a cozy blanket, a pumpkin spice latte, and a cracking fire. These are perfect in the winter/fall, but of course I love to make them all year long!
- Flavor! Brown butter creates a nutty, rich base flavor with some cinnamon added to round out the depth. A little extra vanilla extract adds to the deep flavor profile, and then they are rolled in powdered sugar, so there is a creamy, melt-in-your-mouth texture to finish everything off.
- Easy! You don’t even need your mixer for these. They can all be done in a large sauce pot that you use to brown your butter!
What Are Crinkle Cookies?
Crinkle cookies are simply cookie rolled into powdered sugar before they go in the oven, so as they bake they spread and create a pretty, crackled appearance.
Typically you see Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, which are super pretty with the contrast of the dark cookie and the powdered sugar…but why let chocolate have all the fun?
Why Brown the Butter?
If you are asking that question I wonder if we can still be friends…Ok, just kidding…sort of. Browning butter adds SO much flavor to anything you add it to. And typically you can replace regular butter with browned butter whenever your recipe calls for butter!
Browned butter is just butter, cooked until it’s melted, and then cooked longer, swirling or stirring the butter so it doesn’t burn. The milk solids toast and create tons of flavor and the butter turns a pretty amber color. TIP: You can use brown butter melted, or allow it to come back to room temperature and return to its solid state. This cookie recipe uses the butter in its melted state, just slightly cooled.
How to Make the Best Crinkle Cookies
Once you have the butter browned, things go together quickly and easily!
- Just whisk together your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
- Then mix both of the sugars into the butter.
- Next pour the dry ingredients into the butter mixture and stir to combine.
- You need to chill the dough at this step so it’s easier to work with.
- Once it’s chilled, roll the dough into balls and then coat them in powdered sugar.
- Bake and enjoy!
If You Love Brown Butter Cookies, Here Are A Few More Recipes To Try:
- Browned Butter Shortbread
- Sea Salt Butterscotch Pretzel Cookies
- Browned Butter Bourbon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown Butter Cinnamon Crinkle Cookies
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes + 1 hour chill time
- Yield: 36 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Brown Butter Cinnamon Crinkle Cookies are possibly the coziest cookie to ever exist. They’re sweet, full of brown butter and cinnamon goodness, and coated in powdered sugar for that perfect crinkle look!
Ingredients
- 10 tablespoons butter, sliced
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Place the butter in a large saucepan. Cook over medium heat until the butter melts and begins to foam. Continue to cook, whisking (or swirling the pan) frequently until the butter becomes an amber color, this should take 2-3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and allow it to cool slightly, for 15 – 20 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and set aside.
- Add the granulated and brown sugar into the saucepan with the cooled butter, stirring to combine. Add in the eggs and vanilla, mixing until smooth.
- Slowly stir in the flour mixture until just incorporated. Cover the saucepan and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Place the powdered sugar in a shallow bowl. Divide the chilled dough into 1 1/2 – tablespoon sized balls. Roll each ball into the powdered sugar and place onto the prepared pan, about 2- inches apart.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies are set.
- Allow the cookies to cool on the pan for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Notes
Store the cookies at room temperature for up to 5 days.
Freeze baked cookies airtight for up to 2 months for best freshness, Thaw at room temperature.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 57
- Sugar: 2.5 g
- Sodium: 35.3 mg
- Fat: 2 g
- Carbohydrates: 8.7 g
- Protein: 1.5 g
- Cholesterol: 10.3 mg
I have to admit, I was skeptical. I didn’t like they way the butter smelled after it was ‘browned’ and I didn’t find the batter to be good at all. But, something magical happens in the oven 🙂
I chilled mine for about a half hour because I was afraid they’d stay in a ball as some reviewers stated. I didn’t have any issues with that and I did put it back in the fridge between batches.
I baked them for 11 minutes, and they were perfect. I used the pChef small cookie scoop and it made 40 cookies.
I’ll definitely keep these in my regular rotation!
SO glad you liked them! So funny you don’t like the browned butter smell…I LOVE it…like I think there should be a browned butter candle! haha!
Easy and delicious cookie!
These look amazing! I can’t wait to try them. I was wondering about the texture of these, are they more of a crumbly or chewy type cookie? They look so much like amaretti cookies! just totally different ingredients. I have also seen this recipe made with almond extract and no cinnamon so it made me curious as to how these should turn out.
Thanks,
Erika
They are a softer, chewier cookie!
My kids loved these! Definitely going to make again. Thanks!
Wow. These were so good! They were pretty much inhaled straight out of the oven!! I followed the recipe as listed, but didn’t have the patience to wait an hour for them to cool in the fridge so I put them in the freezer for a half hour & had no problems. Thanks for sharing, I will definitely be baking these again!
Great recipe but gah those adds in between was gross.. the inside of a kids lip with some sort of sore or fungus. Just had to say, it made the reading unpleasant.
Oh yuck, I agree! I will talk with my ad manager about getting those removed!
Made these for some coworkers and they requested them again for our holiday party this week. SO GOOD!!! Good call on the bake timing too
I accidentally forgot the powdered sugar! Can I go back and add it once I have finished making the dough or is it totally ruined?
You think I could add raisins to these ??
Sure!
Has anyone tried using food coloring to make these cookies a little more festive?
Just made these as addition to my Christmas baking. I am going to bring them to South Carolina in five days. Let’s hope they last long!