Brown Butter Cookies Recipe – Brown Butter Cookies are a miracle of chemistry: You have used all these ingredients to make cookies before, but melting and browning the butter prior to incorporating it brings out a whole different spectrum of complexity. Vanilla sugar ensures that the irresistible aroma wafts to every corner of the house once they are in the oven.

This recipe is part of the Virtual Cookie Exchange, courtesy of Baker’s Bench and Gourmet.com.