Butterscotch Cookies

Name: Butterscotch Cookies
Yield: Makes about 32 cookies
Ingredients: 1/2 cup (3 ounces/85 grams), butterscotch chips; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter, plus 9 tablespoons cut into 9 pieces, chilled; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 3/4 cup packed (5 1/4 ounces/149 grams), dark brown sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 1 , large egg yolk; 1 3/4 cups (8 3/4 ounces/248 grams), all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon, baking powder

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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.

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SERVES Makes about 32 cookies

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

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