Creme Brûlée Cookies
Servings 24 cookies
Ingredients
**For the Vanilla Pastry Cream:**
- 2 ¼ cups 540 ml whole milk
- 6 egg yolks
- 1 cup + 2 tablespoons 225 g granulated white sugar
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ tablespoons vanilla bean paste
- 3 ½ tablespoons 28 g cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons 42 g unsalted butter, cut into cubes
**For the Sugar Cookies:**
- 2 ½ cups 313 g all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ¼ cups 250 g granulated white sugar
- 1 cup 224 g unsalted butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste
- ½ cup 100 g granulated white sugar (for rolling the dough)
**For the Brûlée Topping:**
- ½ cup 100 g granulated white sugar
Instructions
**For the Vanilla Pastry Cream:**
- Heat the milk in a saucepan until steaming, then set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, sugar, salt, vanilla bean paste, and cornstarch until smooth.
- Slowly add a quarter of the heated milk to the egg mixture, whisking vigorously.
- Pour the egg mixture back into the saucepan with the remaining milk and cook over medium-low heat until thickened.
- Remove from heat, stir in the butter until melted, then chill the pastry cream until cold.
**For the Sugar Cookies:**
- Preheat your oven to 350°F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In a separate bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy, then mix in the egg and vanilla.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing until combined.
- Roll the dough into balls, coat them in sugar, then flatten slightly on the baking sheets.
- Bake for 9-10 minutes, then cool on a wire rack.
**Assembling the Cookies:**
- Pipe the chilled pastry cream onto the cooled cookies.
- Sprinkle sugar over each cookie, then use a kitchen torch to caramelize the sugar until golden brown.
- Let the cookies cool for 10 minutes before serving.
- Get ready to enjoy these heavenly Crème Brûlée Cookies! Remember to add the pastry cream topping just before serving to keep them perfectly fresh and delicious.