These Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies take your chocolate chip cookies to the next level! Made with browned butter, espresso and chocolate chunks, these cookies let you have your coffee and eat it too 🙂
Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies
So our Nespresso broke last week. And no joke, guys, I’ve been eating these espresso chocolate chunk cookies as my caffeine fix most mornings. Judge me, I don’t care. These chewy brown butter espresso chocolate chip cookies are loaded with espresso powder and chocolate chunks. They’re basically a grown up chocolate chip cookie, and I’m here for it.
What Are Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Espresso chocolate chip cookies are basically just brown butter chocolate chip cookies with espresso powder mixed into the batter, but damn they are good. The espresso really deepens the chocolate flavor without overpowering the buttery, chewy cookie crumb.
topped with a healthy sprinkle of flaky sea salt, and these cookies taste seriously gourmet.
How to Make Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies:
It’s crazy how just a few tweaks to your classic chocolate chip cookie recipe can take a basic recipe to a seriously bakery worthy cookie. The flavor profile of these chewy cookies is seriously insane. The best part? We only made three tweaks.
Brown the butter: Okay, so we already do this whenever we make cookies, but you simply have to brown butter if you want to deepen the flavor of any baked good.
Add espresso powder: Espresso powder + chocolate are a match made in heaven. They really bring out the best in each other.
Sprinkle with sea salt: Salt is life. A sprinkle of sea salt not only makes your cookies look fancy af, but also deepens the flavor.
Have your morning coffee and eat it too with these espresso chocolate chip cookies!
Brown the butter over medium heat, stirring constantly until the butter begins to foam and turns a golden brown, emitting a nutty aroma. Take butter off the heat and allow to cool.
In a large mixing bowl combine the cooled brown butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat until mixed together. Add in the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla extract. Mix well.
In separate bowl mix together the flour, espresso powder, salt and baking soda. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet until everything comes together. Fold in the chocolate chunks. Do not over mix.
Refrigerate the cookie dough for at least a half hour, or overnight.
When you are ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 350°F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Use a 1 ounce cookie scoop to scoop the cookie dough out into balls, placing them 2 inches apart on the prepared sheet. Bake for 11 minutes, or until the edges are just golden brown and the centers have puffed up but are still gooey.
Allow to cool before eating!
Keywords: espresso chocolate chip cookies, brown butter espresso chocolate chip cookies
Made these delectable, delicious cookies for the second time, perfect cookie for a coffee, chocolate lover❣️Raved reviews from all my special people 👍🏻👍🏻
I made these today, for my ex-mother-in-law….My husband got half of them. He said they are “very tasty”. I had to twerk my light brown sugar into dark, and use bittersweet chocolate chunks…but all worked out ok, thanks! DELISH 😋
I can’t wait to try this recipe! In the picture it looks like the cookies have been sprinkled with sea salt but don’t see it listed in the ingredients or the directions? Am I missing something?
Hi Tracy! We just topped our cookies with sea salt for fun, but it’s certainly not necessary! If you want to, you can just sprinkle your cookies with a pinch of sea salt!
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Hello, these look amazing. What espresso powder do you use?
We usually use Delallo! I love it because it’s super fine!
Made these delectable, delicious cookies for the second time, perfect cookie for a coffee, chocolate lover❣️Raved reviews from all my special people 👍🏻👍🏻
I made these today, for my ex-mother-in-law….My husband got half of them. He said they are “very tasty”. I had to twerk my light brown sugar into dark, and use bittersweet chocolate chunks…but all worked out ok, thanks! DELISH 😋
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So happy you enjoyed these and that you’re substitutions worked out!
They were delicious!
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Hi Isabelle! So happy to hear you enjoyed these cookies 🙂
I can’t wait to try this recipe! In the picture it looks like the cookies have been sprinkled with sea salt but don’t see it listed in the ingredients or the directions? Am I missing something?
Hi Tracy! We just topped our cookies with sea salt for fun, but it’s certainly not necessary! If you want to, you can just sprinkle your cookies with a pinch of sea salt!