Brown 3 tablespoons of butter in a small pan. Heat until bubbly, foamy, and brown specks appear. Remove from heat and pour into a small bowl, scraping the browned bits from the pan into the bowl as well. Add a teaspoon of water and stir.Freeze for 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
While the butter freezes, mix flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl. Set aside.
In a separate bowl beat a stick of cold butter with sugar using an electric mixer. Beat until smooth and creamy. Because the butter is cold it will take longer, but it will come together. Promise!
Now let's go back to that browned butter in the freezer. Pull it out and mix with brown sugar until it clumps together.
Add the browned butter/brown sugar mixture to the butter and white sugar mixture along with an egg and vanilla extract. Beat until completely combined.
Stir in flour with a Danish dough whisk or wooden spoon.Stir in chocolate chips.
Place rounded tablespoons of cookie dough onto parchment lined baking sheets.
Bake for 10 minutes. Allow cookies to sit on baking sheets for 1-2 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack.
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Notes
The recipe can easily be doubled.Store cookies in an airtight container.