/7d33c383-f94b-48aa-a8b3-44ccd304bcc0--IMG_0123.jpg "Muscovado Sugar Cookies")
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Makes
22 to 24 cookies
Author Notes
Muscovado is an unrefined (or partially sophisticated) brown sugar. It has the coloration of deep mahogany and smells just like the sugar top of crème brûlée. The flavour is of deep molasses—a ways extra involving than white sugar. Muscovado is a pretty wet (or moist) sugar that clumps without considerations, and this because a lot of the molasses stays in preference to being filtered out because it is with white sugar. The muscovado clumps continually finish up in no topic it is you are making. I admire this quality of muscovado—it methodology I win tiny caramelized sugar pockets (those murky flecks you witness within the photos) as I nibble on these cookies. But when uniformity is extra your vogue, merely sift the clumps forward of creaming the sugar with the butter. —Ashley Rodriguez
Ingredients
1 1/2
sticks (170 grams) unsalted butter, refined
1/2 cup
(80 grams) muscovado sugar (sifted whilst you happen to don’t need tiny sugar clumps)
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups
(210 grams) all-honest flour
1/4 teaspoon
baking powder
1/2 teaspoon
(3 grams) kosher salt
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar till very gentle, about 5 minutes on medium-excessive lumber. Problem down the perimeters of the bowl a pair events all one of many best ways through the system to make certain your complete butter and sugar are getting well creamed.
- Add the vanilla extract, then combine to mix.
- In a medium bowl hasten collectively the flour, baking powder, and salt. This aerates the flour and combines the elements collectively without the messy step of sifting.
- With the mixer on low, add the dry elements and mix till a refined dough types. This takes about 30 2d to 1 minute, as the dough first appears to be like crumbly and dry but finally comes collectively.
- Map the dough on a sheet of parchment and roll it true into a log about 1 1/2 inches huge by 8 inches long. Wrap the parchment like a Tootsie Roll and squeeze the dough collectively to originate an honest log. Relax till company, at the least 2 hours or as a lot as overnight, which is most well-preferred.
- Preheat your oven to 350° F.
- Sever the cookies 1/4-glide thick and instruct 12 on a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or till the perimeters are most involving golden.
- Let frosty on the tray for five minutes forward of transferring to a wire rack to dwell cooling.
- Retailer in an airtight container, the place the cookies will take care of for as a lot as 1 week. The dough may perchance perchance perchance perchance furthermore be refrigerated for 1 week or frozen for 1 month.
Author of Date Evening In (2015) and creator of the weblog, No longer With out Salt.
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