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Butterscotch Chip Cookies Recipe

This butterscotch chip cookies recipe creates delicious cookies that will melt in your mouth and will be completely devoured by your family as soon as they are taken out of the oven. Moreover, these amazing cookies are simple & easy to make. There are no crazy or hard to find ingredients. In addition, the prep and clean-up of these butterscotch cookies should only take you 10-15 minutes.

Close-Up of the Delicious Butterscotch Chips!

Butterscotch chip cookies

However, if this butterscotch cookie recipe is too sweet for your family, you should try our Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe as the semi-sweet chocolate chips tone down the sweetness of the butterscotch chips. Butterscotch cookies & butterscotch chocolate chip cookies are great as Christmas cookies, holiday cookies, birthday cookies, etc.

Ingredients – Easy Butterscotch Chip Cookies Recipe

  • 16 Tablespoons – Unsalted Butter (softened) – 230 grams
  • 2 – Large Eggs (lightly beaten)
  • 1/2 Cup – Brown Sugar (packed) – 107 grams
  • 1 Cup – Granulated White Sugar – 200 grams
  • 1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract – 5 milliliters
  • 2 1/4 Cups – Flour (all purpose flour) – 270 grams
  • 1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda – 5 milliliters
  • 1 Teaspoon – Salt – 5 milliliters (optional – use only 1/2 teaspoon if you are trying to reduce the sodium in your diet)
  • 2 Cups – Butterscotch Chips (morsels) – 340 grams
  • Optional – Replace one of the cups of butterscotch chips with one cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips or chopped nuts.

Servings – Roughly 24-30 cookies (amount depends on the size of the cookie that you create)

Equipment – Measuring cup & spoons, mixing bowl, long wooden spoon, electric mixer, tablespoon or cookie dough scoop, oven mitts, silicon spatula, baking sheets, cooling rack and an oven. If you are missing anything, please visit Bread Dad’s baking tools section.

On the Cookie Baking Sheet

Butterscotch Chip Cookies

Instructions – Easy Butterscotch Chip Cookies Recipe

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  • Soften butter in a microwave.
  • Lightly beat the eggs.
  • Mix eggs, butter, granulated white sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Use an electric mixer to mix these ingredients together. Mix until creamy.
  • Then stir in the flour, baking soda and salt. Use an electric mixer to mix all of the ingredients together. Mix until ingredients are completely blended and cookie dough looks creamy. FYI – Read the tips section below to find out why using an electric mixer results in a much better cookie than mixing by hand.
  • Add the butterscotch chips to the cookie dough. Use a large spoon (not electric mixer) to stir in the chips. Stir until chips are mixed evenly throughout the dough.
  • Scoop dough with a tablespoon or cookie dough scoop and place this dough “ball” onto a nonstick baking sheet. You will need at least 2 baking sheets in order to bake all of the cookies at the same time (if they can fit in your oven) or you will need to bake each batch separately (one after the other).
  • Leave space of roughly 3 inches between each dough ball because the butterscotch cookies will spread as they bake.
  • Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Remove baking tray from the oven. Wear oven mitts. Leave cookies on baking sheet to cool for 2-3 minutes. Otherwise, cookies might break when removed from pan.
  • Use a spatula to remove cookies and place cookies on wire cooling racks in order to cool completely.

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Finished Product – Delicious Butterscotch Chip Cookies

Butterscotch Chip Cookies

Tips – Easy Butterscotch Chip Cookies Recipe

  • Optional – If the butterscotch taste is too overpowering and/or sweet for your family, you can tone it down with a 50/50 mix of butterscotch chips & semisweet chocolate chips. The semisweet chocolate “mellows out” the butterscotch.
  • Optional – You can also make a fun variation of this recipe by adding some nuts. You just need to replace one of the cups of butterscotch chips with a cup of chopped walnuts, chopped peanuts, etc. Therefore, this 50/50 mix would consist of 1 cup of butterscotch chips and 1 cup of chopped nuts (versus the original recipe that uses 2 cups of butterscotch chips).
  • Optional – Or for another delicious cookie variation, you can replace 1 cup of butterscotch chips with 1 cup of dried fruit (i.e. dried cranberries).
  • If you want to print out this recipe, please scroll down the page to our recipe widget “box”. You will find a “print recipe” button located right under the product image photo in this box. Click on that button in order to print out the basic recipe instructions.
  • We all know & love chocolate chips. However, what is butterscotch? According to Wikipedia, “Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter, but other ingredients are part of some recipes, such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt. The earliest known recipes, in mid-19th century Yorkshire, used treacle (molasses) in place of or in addition to sugar. Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but for butterscotch, the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, not hard crack as with toffee.”
  • Cookies come out much better if you mix the ingredients with an electric mixer. The cookie dough comes out “creamier” and the ingredients are blended in better if you use an electric mixer.
  • Completely mix the eggs, butter and sugar together with an electric mixer BEFORE adding the flour. This will result in much better cookies. See the inadequately blended problems in the line below.
  • Mixing only by hand can lead to the cookie dough being inadequately blended. This can result in your butterscotch cookies having unwanted “clumps” of ingredients (i.e. small flour clumps) and/or a gritty texture (inadequately blended sugar grains). Use an electric mixer for best results.
  • However, do not use the electric mixer on the butterscotch chips… as this will just grind & chop them into tiny bits! Hand stir the chips into the cookie dough with a large spoon.
  • You can make the cookie dough balls (drops, spoonfuls, etc.) with 2 tablespoons, a cookie dough scoop or your hands. Some people also like to wear food grade plastic gloves when making cookie dough balls/drops.
  • Use of a cookie dough scoop will give you more consistently shaped cookies versus varying sizes from using a less “exact” methods such as using a tablespoon or your hands.
  • For “rounder” butterscotch cookies (with no edges sticking out), you can use a cookie dough scoop or mold the cookie dough by hand into round balls and then press down on the dough ball until it turns into a pancake shape.
  • For a more “natural” cookie shape, you can scoop the cookie dough with a tablespoon and place the cookie dough “drops” onto the baking sheet without shaping the dough. Your cookies will taste great and just have a few more natural edges and bumps.
  • Optional – Once you have placed the cookie dough balls on the baking tray, you can press extra chips into the top of the dough balls if you want a larger butterscotch “visual appearance”.
  • Place the baking tray on the oven’s middle rack for best results. If the baking tray is placed too high or too low in the oven, the baking tray may be too close to the heating element.
  • If you have a problem with a cookie recipe, please make sure that you are following the recipe exactly (i.e. using the correct oven temperature), using the correct amounts of ingredients (i.e. don’t eyeball the measurements versus using a measuring cup or accidentally add a tablespoon when a teaspoon is called for), using the correct ingredients (i.e. baking soda/powder versus yeast or all purpose flour versus bread flour), etc. Please don’t “wing” things with recipes.
  • In addition, you should always try to use relatively fresh baking soda & powder for the best results. For example, using baking soda from an open container (that has been deodorizing your refrigerator for months) may lead to subpar results. Old & hard baking soda/powder may lead to rising problems and/or leave small bitter clumps in your butterscotch cookies.
  • My recipes are based on US ingredient measurements (i.e. US cups & tablespoons). However, as a courtesy to our European visitors, I have also included some very ROUGH European equivalents (i.e. grams & milliliters). Since I rarely use European measurements when baking, please let me know in the comment section below if any of the European ingredient measurements need to be changed (i.e. for XYZ ingredient, milliliters are more commonly used versus the grams information listed in the recipe).
  • Always wear oven mitts/gloves when dealing with ovens, hot baking sheets, etc.
  • For more easy cookie ideas (i.e. chocolate chip or cranberry), please visit Bread Dad’s main Easy Cookie Recipes section.

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Reference Sources

  • Wikipedia, Butterscotch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterscotch
  • Wikipedia, Cookie, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie
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Butterscotch Chip Cookies Recipe

This butterscotch chip cookies recipe creates delicious cookies that will melt in your mouth and will be completely devoured by your family as soon as they are taken out of the oven. Moreover, these amazing cookies are simple & easy to make. There are no crazy or hard to find ingredients. For more great cookie recipes, please visit Bread Dad (BreadDad.com).
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time10 mins
Total Time25 mins
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: butterscotch chip cookies, butterscotch cookie recipe, butterscotch cookies
Servings: 30 Cookies
Calories: 177kcal
Author: Bread Dad

Ingredients

  • 16 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter (softened)
  • 2 Eggs (large & lightly beaten)
  • 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar (packed)
  • 1 Cup Granulated White Sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 2 1/4 Cups Flour (all purpose flour)
  • 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 Teaspoon Salt (optional - use only 1/2 teaspoon if you are trying to reduce the sodium in your diet)
  • 2 Cups Butterscotch Chips (morsels)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  • Soften butter in a microwave.
  • Lightly beat the eggs.
  • Mix eggs, butter, granulated white sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Use an electric mixer to mix these ingredients together. Mix until creamy.
  • Then stir in the flour, baking soda and salt. Use an electric mixer to mix all of the ingredients together. Mix until ingredients are completely blended and cookie dough looks creamy.
  • Add the butterscotch chips to the cookie dough. Use a large spoon (not electric mixer) to stir in the chips. Stir until chips are mixed evenly throughout the dough.
  • Scoop dough with a tablespoon or cookie dough scoop and place this dough “ball” onto a nonstick baking sheet. You will need at least 2 baking sheets in order to bake all of the cookies at the same time (if they can fit in your oven) or you will need to bake each batch separately (one after the other).
  • Leave space of roughly 3 inches between each dough ball because the cookies will spread as they bake.
  • Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Remove baking tray from the oven. Wear oven mitts. Leave cookies on baking sheet to cool for 2-3 minutes. Otherwise, cookies might break when removed from pan.
  • Use a spatula to remove cookies and place cookies on wire cooling racks in order to cool completely.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 177kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 165mg | Potassium: 24mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 214IU | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 1mg

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