Brown Butter and Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies {The Best Cookies You'll Ever Eat}

These are the best cookies you’ll ever eat, hands down! This is the cookie recipe that I will keep forever....my future children's, children's, children will be baking these! They are decadent, rich and chewy. I love the combination of sweet creamy chocolate with a hint of sea salt. Gawwww they are my absolute favorite! Beware of their addictive powers.

Ingredients:

2 ¼ cups flour

1 ½ tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. of sea salt {extra for sprinkling -- I like to use Maldon Sea Salt Flakes}

2 sticks {1 cup} unsalted butter

1 ½ cups brown sugar

¼ cup granulated sugar

1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk

1 ½ tsp. vanilla extract

1 tbsp. sour cream

1 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350F.

-Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Set aside.

-Melt butter in a pan over medium heat. Whisk constantly until the butter begins to brown. This may take a few minutes. Remove from the heat as soon as you see the butter turn to a clear brown color {as pictured below}. Pour butter into a large bowl and add both brown and white sugar, whole egg, egg yolk, vanilla and sour cream until thoroughly combined.

-Slowly mix dry ingredients into the butter sugar mixture

-Mix in chocolate chips

-Cool cookie dough for 20 minutes in the freezer {or 1 hour in the fridge}

-Roll cold dough into 2 inch balls and place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet lined with a silpat mat.

-Sprinkle with sea salt

-Bake for 9 minutes at 350F or until the edge of the cookies turn golden brown and the center is still soft. The center may look a little underdone, but fear not…this is exactly how you want them.

-Let the cookies cool on a wire wrack until the centers have settled.

Yields about 2 dozen cookies.