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Gluten-free brown butter chocolate chip cookies on a napkin. A glass of milk and a platter of cookies is in the background.

Gluten-Free Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Brown butter makes these gluten-free chocolate chip cookies rich and tender. 

Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 13 minutes
Total Time 38 minutes
Servings 24 cookies
Author GlutenFreeBaking.com

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter (3/4 cup; 6 ounces; 170 grams)
  • 1 1/4 cups finely ground white rice flour (5 ounces; 142 grams)
  • 1/2 cup sweet rice flour (2 ounces; 56 grams)
  • 1/4 cup cornstarch (1 ounce; 28 grams)
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed (5 1/4 ounces; 148 grams)
  • 1/4 cup golden syrup (2 3/4 ounces; 78 grams)
  • 2 large egg yolks (1 ounce; 28 grams)
  • 2 cups gluten-free chocolate chips (12 ounces; 340 grams)

Instructions

  1. Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat oven to 325°F. Line rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. In small pot over medium-low heat, melt butter. Stir occasionally. After foam subsides, watch butter until milk solids turn golden brown, about five minutes. Remove pot from heat and allow butter to cool. While butter cools, whisk together white rice flour, sweet rice flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and baking powder in medium bowl.
  3. In bowl of stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, combine brown sugar, golden syrup, and cooled brown butter. Mix on medium speed to combine. Stop mixer. Add dry ingredients. Turn mixer on to medium. Blend until a thick dough forms. Dough will be dry. Add egg yolks. Blend until smooth dough forms. Stop mixer. Add chocolate chips. Turn mixer to low. Mix until chocolate chips are incorporated.
  4. Drop dough, about one tablespoon each, onto prepared baking sheet. Space dough about two inches apart. Bake until edges are just set and cookies are faintly golden brown, about 13 minutes. (For softer and chewier cookies, bake until cookies are just set.) Remove cookies and allow to cool on baking sheet for two minutes. Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough.