Soft Baked Brown Butter Sugar Cookies

These soft baked brown butter sugar cookies are everything you want in a cookie: tender, soft, chewy, and flavored with rich brown butter. Best of all, this recipe is designed to be super approachable: no dough chilling required and the soft sugar cookie dough is easy to roll in sparkling sugar, nonpareils, or sprinkles!

1 cup ( 224 g) unsalted butter, divided

2 ½ cups ( 350 g) all-purpose flour

2 tsp ( 10 g) baking powder

½ tsp ( 3 g) salt

1 ¼ cups ( 250 g) granulated sugar

1 large egg ( 50 g)

1 large egg yolk ( 18 g)

1 tsp ( 4 g) vanilla extract

¼ cup ( 60 g) sour cream, at room temperature

subheading: For Rolling:

⅔ cup ( 133 g) granulated sugar, sparkling sugar, or nonpareils (see note below)

Directions at tutti-dolci.com

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