Brown Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies have a hint of toasted brown butter flavor and are sprinkled with coarse sea salt before baking. Meet your new favorite cookie recipe!
“These are the absolute best gluten free cookies!! I made a double batch and shared with some non gluten free friends and they loved them too!”
We have the best neighbors in the entire world, who are not only generous and kind, but truly adore our kids and listen with genuine interest when one of them shows them their new shoes, or tells the same story for the 10th (or maybe 20th) time. ;) They’re inspiring examples of how neighbors should take care of each other.
With our youngest now here, our neighbor has on more then one occasion zipped right past his property line while cutting his grass and continued on across both our front and back yards. We are both horrified because we hate feeling like a burden to our neighbors, and immensely grateful because, of course! They’re just the best.
To show our appreciation, I’ve been baking them cookies, and gluten free Brown Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies were this weekend’s delivery. Shhh – don’t tell our neighbors, but I may have snuck a cookie or two before sending the boys over with a plate of these babies – chocolate still warm from the oven.
In my defense, could YOU resist?!
Kicked Up Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie
While this cookie recipe might sound fancy, it’s a standard, gluten free oatmeal cookie recipe with the addition of dark chocolate chips, a sprinkling of coarse sea salt, and brown butter which lends a warm and toasty flavor to each bite.
The only way I can describe the flavor or scent of brown butter is that it reminds me of a campfire. Not smokey, just…warm. It’s so delicious, so easy to make, and I’m thinking that no oatmeal cookie base should ever be made with out it.
Whether you make these cookies for your neighbors, a friend, or your cookie loving-self – everyone will adore them!
Try Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
How to Make this Recipe
Step 1: Make the brown butter.
Start by browning salted butter. Like I said, this sounds fancy but all you’re basically doing is sauting butter.
Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat then start swirling the skillet when it begins to foam and sizzle. Keep swirling, scraping down the sides of the skillet every now and again, until the butter is the color of maple syrup. Voila – you now have brown butter!
Scrape the butter into a dish to cool completely – you can do this a day ahead of time if you like. Store in the refrigerator.
I’m telling you – the scent of warm brown butter will make you ALL kinds of happy. Warm, toasty – irresistable!
Step 2: Combine the wet ingredients.
Add the cooled brown butter to the bowl of an electric mixer, or a large glass bowl if using a hand held mixer, with granulated sugar and brown sugar then cream. Add an egg and vanilla then mix until the egg is just combined.
Step 3: Combine the dry ingredients.
Next add gluten-free “measure for measure” flour, baking soda, and salt then mix to combine. Finally, add gluten-free old fashioned oats and gluten free dark chocolate chips then mix to combine.
Scoop 2 Tablespoons worth of dough into your hands then roll into a ball and slightly flatten, and then place on a half sheet pan lined with a silpat or parchment paper and sprinkle with coarse sea salt. I like Morton Coarse Sea Salt — Maldon finishing salt is great too!
Step 4: Bake.
Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until the edges are golden brown and the top is still a little gooey. Mine take exactly 10 minutes. Cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
I hope you love these crispy, chewy-gooey, sweet, salty, toasty, PERFECT Brown Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies! Enjoy!
More Gluten Free Cookies You’ll Love
- Gluten Free Shortbread
- Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Gluten Free Sugar Cookies
- Gluten Free Sugar Cookie Bars
- Gluten Free Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Soft Batch Pumpkin Gingersnap Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Gluten Free Ginger Molasses Cookies
- Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup salted butter, 1 stick
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup gluten free flour, I like Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 cups certified gluten-free old fashioned oats
- 1 heaping cup gluten free dark chocolate chips, I like Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Morsels
- coarse sea salt or finishing salt
Directions
- Add butter to a medium-sized skillet over medium heat. Melt butter then start slowly swirling the skillet when the butter begins to sizzle. Continue swirling the skillet, scraping down the sides every now and again, until butter is deep golden brown in color, like maple syrup, 3-4 minutes. Be careful as it can quickly go from brown to burnt. Scrape brown butter into a dish then set aside to cool completely. Can be made a day ahead of time — store in the refrigerator.
- Once browned butter has cooled, add it to the bowl of an electric mixer or a large glass bowl if using a handheld mixer. Add both sugars then beat until well combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl then add the egg and vanilla and mix until egg is just combined.
- Scrape down the bowl then add flour, baking soda, and salt and mix until just combined. Add oats and chocolate chips then mix until combined. Cover dough then refrigerate for at least one hour or up to 72 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees then line a half sheet pan with a silpat or parchment paper. Scoop 2 Tablespoons worth of dough into your hands then roll into a ball and slightly flatten (if you've refrigerated the dough longer than one hour you may need to let the dough sit out and soften for a bit first). Sprinkle tops with sea salt then bake for 8-10 minutes or until cookies are golden brown around the edges. Let cool slightly before transferring to cooling racks to cool completely.
Nutrition
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Bought a kielbasa today to make your potato soup this week… haha. I have been looking to make these cookies wheat free. Browned butter??? Genius! Might have to make these tomorrow. ? ?cheers for awesome neighbors, may the grace be plentiful and the acts of mercy abound. ?
In the oven now ? if the dough tastes as good as the cookies we are in business.
OMG the dough is UNREAL. I hope you love them, Michelle!!
Do you use a butter substitute for this for Lincoln? Can you “brown” ghee?
You can use softened vegan butter in place of the brown butter if you need these to be dairy free. Ghee has most of the butter solids removed so it wouldn’t brown!
Yum! Can’t wait to try it! I’ve been looking for a great GF cookie recipe but haven’t found one that isn’t cake-like yet. Thanks!
Ohh you’re going to love these then! Enjoy, Marie!
Thank you so much for this recipe!! These look amazing. I love Enjoy Life products too!
They’re just the best! Hope you love these cookies, Erika!
I’m not gluten free. Can these be made with All Purpose flour?
Yep, you can!
Couldn’t you use casein free organic ghee for the butter? I order Ancient Organics, which is AMAZINGLY YUMMY in everything, and it is labeled as casein/dairy free.
Ghee has most of the butter solids removed so it wouldn’t brown. That said you could use ghee/regular butter and just not brown it for this recipe!
Thanks for sharing this recipe! Last night I was just thinking that I need to find a yummy GF chocolate chip cookie recipe… and there it was waiting for me this morning! I will be making these for my family tonight.
It’s fate!! I hope you love them, Karen!
Love Enjoy Life! All of their stuff is amazing. I am wondering if you can just use regular flour if I don’t need them to be gluten free? Is it the same amount? Thanks!! Definitely making these this weekend!
Yep, same amount! I based this recipe on an old oatmeal CCC recipe of mine that used regular AP flour. :)
Hi Kristin, Pretty sure we need an “We’re the worst/you’re the best” printable for cookie giving — we could totally use that around our house! Our neighbors help us chase our (repeat) runaway dog and they deserve these! These look amazing and I haven’t tried Enjoy Life chips, but I’ll definitely be checking those out. Great recipe!
Hahah, right?! Thank goodness for amazing neighbors!
If your son is dairy free can he eat these cookies? Have you ever baked with earth balance? Going through all of this now with my 9 mo old so I’ve been dairy free for 7 months.
He cannot! Brown butter occurs when you cook milk solids so a vegan butter unfortunately wouldn’t work in this recipe!
These might be the death of me! They look amazing!!! Making your hamburger rice soup as I type for dinner tonight…. don’t know what I’d do without you!
Oh my goodness you are too kinds – I’m SO glad you love the recipes!
Yum, these sound great and I always love the combination of oatmeal and chocolate when it comes to cookies!
Me too! Hope you love them, Melissa!