Bourbon Beer and Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

01.12.2020 Jackie Dodd-Mallory (Senior Editor) 9 Comments

Bourbon Beer and Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

Apparently, the holidays are here. And by "holidays" I mean an excuse to eat all the things and fatten up my neighbors with cookies and beer. It’s festive. Merry Cookies and Beer Every Day season, it’s a nondenominational holiday that we can all get behind. 

We need this right now, we might be divided on a lot of issues after a year like this, but we are all on the same page with cookies, right? RIGHT?! As in, chocolate chips are far superior to raisins which gives me trust issues when I find them in cookies and realize they are not the chocolatey goodness I assume the dark spots in my cookies to be. 

Also, we just need to agree that "cookies and beer" are way better than "cookies and milk". It’s just a fact, unless you’re a child in which case I have no idea how you found me but please, bake your mom some cookies and forget about the beer it’s gross. It’s spicy. Let your mom take a sip to make sure. Or several sips. Now she needs a cookie and some alone time. 

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Bourbon Beer and Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

5 from 2 votes

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Servings 3 dozen

Ingredients

  

• 13 tablespoons (185g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup (200g) brown sugar, packed light or golden
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 large egg at room temperature
• 2 tablespoons molasses not blackstrap
• 3 tablespoons bourbon barrel-aged beer
• 2 ½ cups (317g) bread flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
• Pinch nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• Sanding sugar*

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Add the butter and brown sugar to a stand mixer, beat on high until well combined, light and fluffy. This should take about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add the eggs and vanilla, beat until well combined, and resembles frosting. Add the molasses and beer, beat until well combined.
• Add the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and salt, stir until just combined.
• Stir in the chocolate chips.
• Add the sanding sugar to a bowl.
• Using a cookie scoop, make balls of dough, roll in the sugar, then add to a cookie sheet covered with parchment.
• Bake for 12 minutes, pull the parchment paper off the cookie sheet onto a flat surface to rest until cooled.

Notes

Sanding sugar is large grain sugar that won’t melt in the oven. You can also easily use clear/white sprinkles or just plain ol’ sugar.