Brown Sugar Blueberry Cookies.
Certain things happen when you bake cookies that taste like muffins. Blueberry cookies, to be exact.
Cookies become breakfast food.
Midnight snacks too.
You pass them off as two servings of fruit. Or three.
You sleep-eat cookies.
You closet-eat cookies.
They somehow disappear.
You weep.
Face, meet cookies. Cookies… I apologize.
Few things in this house bring excitement like a soft, fluffy cookie filled with bursting, plump blueberries. Me? Shoes and sea-salted chocolate. Him? Steak and Taylor Swift. In the non-creepy, he’s-old-enough-to-be-her-dad kind of way.
Yeah. I know. It’s semi-weird. Right? I remind him of it often.
Who wants a cookie?
Brown Sugar Blueberry Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 3/4 cup fresh blueberries
optional maple glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon half and half
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until smooth. Add egg and vanilla, mixing well until combine, about 2 minutes. Stir in flour, baking powder, salt, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon with the mixer on low speed. Mix until dough comes together. Add in milk. If dough is still crumbly, add milk 1 tablespoon at a time until it comes together. Fold in blueberries gently with a spatula – it is okay if they break a bit. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Remove dough from fridge and roll into 1 1/2 inch balls or scoop out with an ice cream scooper. Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes. Let cool completely.
optional maple glaze
- Whisk together the ingredients until smooth. If the mixture is too thin, whisk in more sugar 1/4 cup at a time. If it’s too thick, whisk in more syrup or half and half, 1 teaspoon at a time. Drizzle on cookies!
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Cookies > muffins. Or maybe… cookies = muffins. Cookies/muffins?? Â I really don’t know. I told you I’m terrible at math.
[photos by sarah fennel]
293 Comments on “Brown Sugar Blueberry Cookies.”
They’re so thick! I love a breakfast cookie :-)
These look awesome – I love blueberries and cookies for breakie…obviously ;-) I have to be honest, I’ve never used fresh fruit in a cookie before.
These look so delicious, I want to go bake right now!
A friend of mine gave me her recipe for some amazing blueberries cookies that I posted awhile back, they have icing on top too! Still totally acceptable for Breakfast O:-)
Ok I just want to jump through the screen and eat the dough off that scooper! Yum! These look great!
Mm, these look fantastic! Milk Bar in NYC makes a great blueberries and cream cookie :D
My favorite part about baked goods that contain blueberries is eating them while they’re still hot, and the blueberries are all warm and soft when you take a bite. I want one! With a glass of milk.
That’s easily my favorite too!
Oh my! I’m excited to whip these up.
I’m going to use Wild Maine Blueberries (the little ones)
YUM!
this looks like a great recipe Jess! It’s reaaally making me want one bad and it’s only the morning time. I’m in trouble today~ :P
Jess, Hunni would like to say thank you for feeding his sweet tooth when I attempt your recipes.
These sound/look amazing. Too bad blueberries cost $285849348 in Texas right now, which makes me cry every time I go to the store.
Ugh! Bummer.
Cookies/muffins…Mookies? Yes.
I love that word. Mookies.
I am so craving a good soft cookie too! I’ll be making these and bringing them to work with me.
blueberry cookies?? i die.
Woo hoo! Love the blueberries in these. So tasty looking.
I’m all over these. We actually have a recipe sitting on our counter to make this weekend- blueberry cookies!
Those look AND sound awesome! I definitely think cookies > muffins.
You so had me at brown sugar!
Wow these look so beautiful. I’m not much of a blueberry person…unless they are in baked goods like this :)
Man, you are just KILLING me with all these blueberry recipes! Blueberry salmon…blueberry cookies…I need to find blueberries. Stat.
Taylor Swift, huh? Are you going to be in trouble for over sharing? ;) Love the cookies! I usually like crispy cookies, but I could make an exception for these!
I seriously cracked up at the Taylor Swift part; these cookies look like a wonderful breakfast!
I just made a recipe for PB+Blueberry+choc. chip bars and they were incredible! I never thought blueberries in a cookie but holy yum!!
I am obsessed with blueberry and chocolate together!
Oooh, those look mighty tasty! Thank you for making my stomach growl so early in the morning!
Aimee
Oh man, yum. Do these taste sweet or more straightforward blueberry doughiness-ish?
I’d say a mix in between? They are definitely sweet but not overly sweet. At least… not to me. ;)
Wait, aren’t cookies always breakfast food.
P.S. make them into sandwich cookies with white chocolate buttercream in between.
Fun! These look soft and delicious.
breakfast cookie … genius! I am so into blueberries right now. YUM!
mmmm…. seriously, these count as breakfast food, right?
What a wonderful idea, blueberries in a cookie! These look so tasty.
great idea! Yay for summer fruits!
A-Mazing… that’s all I have to say. I have never seen blueberry cookies… these are just fantastic!
Cookies + Muffins = Coofins. =) haha They look yummy.
Cookies for breakfast? Heck yes! This makes me feel less silly for considering my hand full of chocolate coverd espress beans breakfast this morning haha!
Here’s the thing. I came to your site for a dinner recipe to make tonight, but now I HAVE to make these cookies. I also have been oggling 2 old bananas in a bowl on my counter and fantasizing about them in your brown sugar banana cupcakes. So, now I have to make those too, since the oven will already be on. I can’t get anything done around here with all these delish recipes!
I’ve seen blueberry cookies with dried blueberries but I love that you are using fresh here since blueberries are at such great prices now.
These look pillow soft! So good!
Yes! Healthy cookies ;)
I’ve never tried blueberries in cookies, these look fantastic!
grr I don’t have brown sugar! do you think I could get away with using regular white sugar? or should i just go suck it up and get brown sugar from the store bc these cookies are worth it…?
Yes they will definitely work with white sugar. At least – I know that the cookie will work, and I’m sure it will still be delicious! I actually developed this recipe from my snickerdoodle recipe: http://www.howsweeteats.com/2010/12/fat-fluffy-snickerdoodles/ and that uses white sugar. Let me know how they are!
Positively glorious! and they did remind me a lot of snickerdoodles but with a wonderful blueberry surprise. blueberries are cheap down here in florida right now so I see myself making another batch in my very near future. thank you! ~my blueberry obsessed hubs thanks you too!
I think I love you! I’ve been visiting your blog daily and your commentary and food bring a smile to my face – the unpretentiousness, the humour, the deliciousness!
A huge thanks to you!
Huge thanks to YOU Emily!!
You had me at muffin cookie. But brown sugar? I die.
Cookies definitely > muffins ;)
good thing I have all the ingredients in my house today because I am without car and MUST make these. Those pictures won me over in a heartbeat. Yummy!
Mmmm these do look good!I love the cookie/muffin idea.
So, is your husband getting tickets to the Taylor Swift concert coming to Pittsburgh? I know I sure want to go!
Hahaha well… he is a huge snob about concerts. He refuses to sit anywhere except for like… 1-10 rows back. I don’t think he is willing to pay that much to sit with a bunch of screaming tweens for 3 hours. ;)
Hi Jessica! These cookies look terribly yummy. Making them would help some blueberries I’ve got in the freezer jump happily :-)) I’d like to ask you a question about the exact quantity of butter to use in this recipe simply because here in Spain it is not quite usual no find butter in packets and I don’t know whether the weight would be exactly the same here as in your country.
I’ll be glad to get your response :-))
Cheers!
Yolanda
Hi Yolanda – it is 1/2 cup! I hope that helps. :)
Thanks a lot, Jessica! Sure it helps!
Cheers!
Yolanda
these look delicious! can’t you just come to my house and bake the cookies for me for a dinner party i’m having this weekend? me and baking=fail. every.single.time.
and i certainly don’t want to result to tollhouse baking. that would just hurt my heart.
Those look really good!
CUFFINS!!! YUM! i am loving the fresh berries during the summer, I just picked up some raspberries and they were so amazing! I could go through copious amounts of them in no time!
Right. I was just about ready for bed, but now I am wondering if it would be very unwise to start baking in the middle of the night. Thanks!
They look delicious, by the way. Blueberries in cookies, I wouldn’t have thought about that either. I am still searching for something that will make me like cherries (I know, I’m not normal). Now I am wondering if I can put them in a cookie too. Hmm. Have to think about that some more. Tomorrow. Now I need to bake cookies. And sleep.
Cookies!?! FOR BREAKFAST!?! Reminds me of that old Cookie Crisp Cereal commercial. You think I could put like 30 of these in a bowl together, cover it with milk and call it breakfast? Because I’m about to do exactly that.