BakeDoughPedia: Caramel and White Chocolate Chips Cookies with Nutella Filling

Gosh! It had been almost a month since my last post!! I really should post more often but it's difficult with a 9 month old; especially since time management has never been my forte! =_=

Anyway, my initial intention was to submit a picture of these cookies for the SCS Baker's Challenge but I missed the deadline (surpriseeee..not!)! =/ But I'm kinda proud coz this is an original recipe which includes brown butter; something that I've known for soooo many years but trying it only now..hehe!

Really love the taste of the cookies, so do give it a try and let me know how it turned out! =)

Caramel and White Chocolate Chips Cookies with Nutella Filling

Ingredients:

Dry ingredients

- 330g all purpose flour

- 1/2 teaspoon of salt

- 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

- 2 tablespoons of milk powder

(Sift and mix well)

- 100g of mini white chocolate chips

Liquid Ingredients

- 225g brown butter

- 1 egg + 1 yolk

- 2 teaspoons of vanilla

- 112g of castor sugar

- 100g of brown sugar

- 15g of heavy cream/yoghurt/milk

Filling

- Nutella

Methods:

Brown Butter

1. First up, prepare your brown butter by cutting up the butter into small pieces

2. Melt the butter over medium fire and stir continuously. You will see large air bubbles

3. Continue stirring and the liquid will turn foamy. Turn off the fire when the it has turned brown and let it cool

Cookie Dough

1. After the brown butter has cooled, pour the brown butter into your mixing bowl. Add sugars, vanilla, egg+yolk and heavy cream and mix well until it becomes caramel-like

2. Add the dry ingredients

3. Mix until a dough is formed

4. Scrape down with a spatula, wrap it in cling wrap and chill dough in the fridge for at least an hour. This is to firm up the dough as well as to bring out the flavour of the brown butter as the dough rest

Nutella Filling

1. While waiting for your dough to chill, prepare your piping bag. I have posted pictures on how to seal your piping bag so that Nutella will not seep out when you fill up the piping bag:

Twist the piping bag

Tuck the bag into the piping tip

2. Fill it with Nutella and chill in the fridge until ready to use

Preparing the cookies:

1. Line a tray with tracing paper and take both the dough and Nutella out from the fridge. Pre-heat the oven at 180 Degree Celcius

2. I used a teaspoon to scoop the dough so that all my cookies will be of the same size but got lazy and just pinched an estimated amount of dough, roll it into a ball and flatten it before placing it on the tray