Butterscotch Cookies

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2012

Few flavors are as familiar as butterscotch. Replicating that flavor in a cookie, however, is like having a clear destination but no map.

SERVES Makes about 32 cookies

TIME 50 minutes, plus 2 hours chilling and 30 minutes cooling

Butterscotch Cookies

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Butterscotch is made by cooking brown sugar and butter together, but simply adding those ingredients to our icebox cookie dough wasn’t enough to make a convincingly butterscotch-y cookie. Exchanging dark brown sugar for light helped but not...

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