These brown butter oatmeal sandwich cookies prove that brown butter makes everything taste better—they are extra rich and delicious. Pairs of warmly-spiced oatmeal cookies are filled with a sweet vanilla cream cheese filling. If you don't have dark corn syrup, you can swap it out with light corn syrup, molasses, maple syrup, or even honey.
Ingredients
- unsalted butter: 1 cup
- firmly packed dark brown sugar: 1 cup
- dark corn syrup: 1 Tbsp
- egg, at room temperature: 1 piece
- vanilla extract: 2 tsp
- 1/4 cups quick oats: 1 piece
- all-purpose flour: 1 cup
- ground cinnamon: 0.75 tsp
- salt: 0.75 tsp
- ground nutmeg: 0.5 tsp
- baking soda: 0.5 tsp
- baking powder: 0.25 tsp
- ground cloves: 0.125 tsp
- ground allspice: 0.125 tsp
- cream cheese, at room temperature: 1 pack (8 ounce pack)
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- salt: 0.25 tsp
- 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar: 2 piece (or as needed)
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Stages of cooking
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Place butter in a light colored saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, until butter has browned and begins to smell nutty, 7 to 10 minutes. Measure out 1/2 cup browned butter and pour into a large mixing bowl to cool to room temperature, 15 to 20 minutes. Reserve remaining browned butter (1/4 to 1/3 cup) for the filling.
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Stir brown sugar and corn syrup into the bowl with cooled brown butter until thoroughly combined; stir in egg and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Add in oats, flour, cinnamon, 3/4 teaspoon salt, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, cloves, and allspice and stir until combined.
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Scoop out 2 tablespoons of dough and carefully roll into a ball. Repeat with remaining dough. Place dough balls into the fridge to chill for about 30 minutes.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment paper.
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Place chilled balls of dough about 3 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets (about 6 dough balls per pan). Bake one pan at a time until cookies begin to turn golden brown on the edges, 10 to 11 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
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To make filling, place cream cheese into a large bowl and beat with a mixer until soft and smooth. Beat in reserved 1/4 to 1/3 cup brown butter. Beat in 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon vanilla, then beat in 1 cup powdered sugar. Beat in remaining 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar as needed to make a smooth, spreadable filling. Place filling into a piping bag and snip off the end. Keep filling refrigerated until ready to use.
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When ready to fill cookies, match up two cookies of somewhat even shape and size. Lay one cookie top-side down and pipe about 1/4 cup filling onto the cookie. Top with matching cookie and press down until filling almost reaches the edges of the cookies. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Store finished cookies in the refrigerator.
