Description
Crème Brûlée Cookies combine buttery sugar cookies, silky vanilla pastry cream, and a crackly caramelized sugar topping. This recipe brings classic French crème brûlée flavors into an elegant yet approachable cookie format.
Ingredients
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Pastry Cream
- 2¼ cups whole milk
- 6 egg yolks
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- ⅛ tsp salt
- 1½ tbsp vanilla bean paste
- 3½ tbsp cornstarch
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter
Cookie Dough
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1¼ cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 tbsp vanilla bean paste
- ½ cup sugar (for rolling)
Brûlée Topping
- ½ cup granulated sugar
Instructions
- Heat milk until steaming. Whisk egg yolks, sugar, vanilla, salt, and cornstarch until smooth.
- Temper eggs with hot milk, return to heat, and cook until thickened.
- Remove from heat, stir in butter, strain, cover, and chill for 2 hours.
- Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla.
- Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Chill dough 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Roll dough into balls, roll in sugar, and press deep indentations.
- Fill with 1 tsp chilled pastry cream and bake for 9 minutes.
- Cool completely, sprinkle sugar on top, and caramelize with a kitchen torch.
Notes
Caramelize sugar just before serving for the best crackle. Keep torch moving to avoid burning. Pastry cream must be fully chilled before filling cookies.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 9 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: French-American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 210
- Sugar: 14g
- Sodium: 95mg
- Fat: 11g
- Saturated Fat: 6g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 26g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 55mg
Keywords: creme brulee cookies, custard cookies, brûlée dessert