HOW TO MAKE BROWN BUTTER APPLE COOKIES

good morning and welcome to the farm
today guys it’s about 8:30 and it’s
already 16 degrees today such a
temperature change from the last few
days when it was minus 2 or 0 in the
morning it’s really weird today but
we’re supposed to get some rain so I’m
gonna let the chickens out for a bit so
they can enjoy a snack and some grass
time before the rain comes I hear the
girls this morning they sound very
excited to come outside not sure if
they’re inside doors close let’s see
yeah it is I’m going to throw their
snack out for them here and then we’re
gonna go inside and open their door to
let them out they sound very excited to
go outside today yesterday was a long
day
hi Sarah and they were kind of stuffed
inside
watch out chickens and they can all go
out and eat their snack which they look
like they’re enjoying see if they have
any eggs it this morning not in the
corner Oh big still hot fresh egg thank
you ladies no more there their food
looks alright we’ll have to change their
water later today the goat seemed very
excited and I grabbed them some hey go
and see how their night was hello I know
you want your crackers let me give you
some hey first
hello Nova Girl Panda are you being mean
this morning hi Lily
give me a second and I’ll get your
crackers okay hang on yes I know I don’t
have them God knows I’ll get them right
now but you have to jump down I can’t
get them if you’re on me here panda
for you know the girl for you Lily
cracker for Lily okay is that better I’m
gonna get you some grain and your
pellets how was your girl’s night seems
pretty warm in here
hey hi well you’re looking for the good
stuff aren’t you this right here this is
like the holy grail of goat treats panda
girl be mean come on over there you go
he’s such a bully all right it’s
starting to rain out there already I’m
not gonna open your door you girls be
good okay don’t fight so I posted a
picture of these cookies on our
Instagram and Facebook page the other
day and everybody asked for the recipe
because there were so many people I
thought I would just show you guys in a
video how I made them so that you can
make them at home now these are called
Apple brown butter sugar cookies and
they are delicious the kids love them
what I’m going to start out with is a
cup and a half of butter in a pot and
I’m gonna put it on the stove and I’m
gonna simmer it until it starts to brown
now you want to be careful not to let
the butter burn because that will ruin
your cookies so I’m gonna put this on
the stove and we’re gonna get it brown
and I’ll check right back with you guys
so my butter has been on this stove
browning for about five minutes what I’m
gonna do is dump it into this glass bowl
and I’m gonna put it in the freezer
because you need it to be solid again to
use it in the next step of the recipe so
I’m going to pour this
in you can see that it’s brown and in
the bottom of the pan you’re gonna have
all these brown pieces you want to make
sure that you scrape those out and put
them into your butter that’s the part
that gives the cookies their good flavor
as many old as you can now I’m gonna pop
this into the freezer for about five
minutes until it’s all it again and
we’ll go on with our next step my bullet
butter has been in the fridge for about
15 minutes it’s nice and hard now I’m
gonna put it into my mixing bowl with my
brown sugar and I’m gonna beat it for
about five minutes until it becomes
light and fluffy it might be a little
hard to get out of the ball you want to
make sure you get everything out though
as outs of use a harder object rather
than just a spatula to scrape it out
don’t forget to get all those little
brown pieces in there from your pot
again that’s what’s gonna give your
cookies the delicious flavor
so you can see on the bottom all this
brown stuff that’s what you want into
the bowl so make sure you don’t leave
any of that behind your brown sugar it’s
one and a quarter cups we’re just gonna
put the mixer on high for about five
minutes and let it get nice and light
and fluffy so our butter and sugar has
been mixing for about five minutes you
can see it’s nice and light and fluffy
this is how you want it to look at this
stage otherwise your cookies are gonna
be really hard so we’re just gonna make
sure my bowl is all scraped down
and then we’re going to add in two large
eggs now these eggs are from our
chickens on the farm here so there are
farm fresh organic eggs now I always
crack them into a separate bowl before I
put them in my recipe and I saved the
eggshells to go back to the chickens it
helps give them calcium to make sure
that they lay nice hard eggs so we’re
gonna add in one and a half teaspoons of
baking powder
and I’m going to add in some vanilla
extract now the recipe itself calls for
a teaspoon I like a little bit more than
that so I just eyeball it now I’m gonna
mix this up and when the eggs are well
incorporated then we’re in add our flour
once your eggs are mixed in really well
you can go ahead and add in your flour
and this recipe calls for three cups of
flour
doesn’t shoot flour all over the kitchen
once it’s all mixed you’re gonna have a
really light airy dough for your cookies
now I have my oven heated up to 350 and
I’m gonna go ahead and take little
scoops and roll them between my hands
this is where my secret ingredient comes
in now normal sugar cookies you just
roll them in plain white sugar I’m gonna
add some apple pie spice to my good mix
take about a teaspoon maybe a teaspoon
and a half roll it in a ball and then
you’re gonna put it into your sugar mix
roll it around to coat all sides and
then we’re going to place it on our tray
and we’re gonna do that with the whole
bowl until we filled all of our trays
I’ve rolled all the cookies and dipped
them in the sugar mixture now I’m just
gonna take a glass I’m gonna dip it in
my sugar and I’m just gonna flatten the
cookies a bit now I did do two different
sizes I like the little tiny cookies to
go with my coffee in the morning and
then I make the bigger cookies for
everybody else
once you’ve flattened all your cookies
you’re just gonna put them into a 350
degree oven for about eight to ten
minutes you want them to be starting to
brown on the outside but still look a
little bit undercooked in the middle
because the cookies will continue to
cook as they’re cooling on the counter
and you don’t want to overcook them
otherwise they’re gonna be crunchy and
that’s no good so our cookies are good
in the oven for 10 minutes I’m going to
let them cool on the trees for a few
minutes and then I’m gonna transfer them
to a cooling rack and let them cool
completely
hey those are hot what are you doing I’m
stealing a fresh-baked cookie hole oh
it’s hot just came out of the oven
everywhere this is so good you could at
least a waited for it to cool down
you’re gonna burn your throat
cookies cookies been stolen I think I’ll
move the rest to a tray we should have
done that today all day how many thanks
do you think there are we haven’t
checked it all today
oh no our our average is eight actually
there was one this morning was there was
it was so I’m thinking 6n yeah there’s a
cheek there’s Jim Corbin job watch out
that chicken doesn’t jump out no oh is
it Sarah Oh
three eight six six look at her and
three six eight her clothes though so
she didn’t ladies no but she was trying
to yeah just trying to keep him warm we
got six eggs let’s check inside there
right you got inside two eggs today
salmon cuz we got one this morning have
an egg look at that guys do they all
came in because the rain u-mall so shut
that door there then then we can shut it
from the outside after it’s pouring down
rain nothing in the corners how’s their
feed and everything good their water is
good good till tomorrow morning yeah
let’s go check on the goats I see that
in it’s dripping we have the gutters we
just need to install them you really
need to get that other project done –
yeah you don’t want to do that all our
free wood from Home Depot yesterday
gotta love it thanks Home Depot
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let’s go see how the girls are doing
they’ve been locked up all day because
of the rain they don’t like to go
outside when it’s raining they’re
looking for treats hey on this side
looks good it’s about three-quarters
full
Oh Corbin says we need some on the other
side know what’s under half we’ll put
some more hay in there are you girls
looking for a treat hey panda Nova Lily
of course they want a treat
we’re looking for crackers hey what’s up
Nova she’s screaming for a cracker panda
says yummy hey panda likes fresh yummy
hey don’t you well you guys get crackers
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cracker hog it is warm in here really
help with that second door over there
close keep the law to the draft oh no
there’s no draft in here nothing it’s
going to be perfect this winter
we can get our other project done
I know yes that is gonna be fun don’t
tell anybody it’s coming up this week
coming up this week we had a couple
surprise projects coming great girls
well let’s head inside and let’s get a
fire going yes and wet so we just went
out and checked the eggs and we got one
that looks really big now when we get a
giant one like this I like to weigh them
just to see how big they are
now an average sized chicken egg is 47
grams and our record so far is 79 so
let’s weigh this one and see we can get
it this day still 83 grams so that’s
definitely a new record I have no doubt
that this is going to be a double yolk
egg thanks for hanging out with us today
guys as we made cookies and got some
small projects done around the farm if
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here we’ll see you guys tomorrow thanks
for watching