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Brookies (Chocolate Chip Cookie and Brownie Bars)
A homemade decadent chocolate brownie and chocolate chip cookie all in one! A brownie and chocolate chip cookie just got married. The best dessert bar!
If you have been on Modern Honey for even a few minutes, you will know how much I LOVE chocolate chip cookies and brownies. They are my two favorite desserts so why not combine them into one to make a killer dessert bar? Are you onboard? I thought so!
When I first started experimenting with making a homemade brookie, I began with my ultimate homemade brownie recipe — the Better than a Boyfriend Brownies. They are fudgy and decadent and the perfect base for our chocolate chip cookie brownie.
Then it is time to whip up the homemade chocolate chip cookie dough. This cookie dough is made with all of the simple ingredients — butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, soda, salt, and chocolate. It has the perfect balance of butter and flour to make it ooey gooey but still have structure.
I like to make it extra aesthetically pleasing by adding chocolate chunks on the very top during the last few minutes of baking. Hey, you know how people eat with their eyes first so you gotta make them extra pretty. Of course, I whip out my Trader Joe’s Pound Plus milk chocolate bars and chop it up and sprinkle on the top.
I made something similar to this once but added a soft and gooey Rice Krispie treat layer. It landed on the cover of Food Network Magazine so I guess you could say it was dang yummy. You can find my Bake Sale Trifecta Bars here and read all about the story.
How to make the Best Brookies (Chocolate Chip Cookie and Brownie):
- Start by whipping up the homemade brownie batter. Spread on the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan.
because it bakes so evenly. I love to use parchment paper on the bottom of the pan so it is so much easier to cut.
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M & M Cookie Bars
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Brookie (Chocolate Chip Cookie and Brownie Bar)
Ingredients
Brownie Layer:
- 3/4 cup Butter (softened)
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1/3 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1/2 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1 cup Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 cup Chocolate Chips (optional)
Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer:
- 1/2 cup Butter (softened)
- 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/4 cup Sugar
- 1 large Egg
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 1/4 cups Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Chocolate Chips (plus milk chocolate chunks to sprinkle on the top)
Instructions
Brownie Batter:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, sugar, and brown sugar for 3-4 minutes or until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla.
- Stir in cocoa, flour, baking soda, and salt until mixed together. Fold in chocolate chips. Pour into 9 x 13 aluminum pan and spread evenly. DO NOT use a glass pan or the brookies will take so much longer to cook and will get hard on the edges and underbaked in the center.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough:
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar, and sugar for 3-4 minutes. Add egg and vanilla and mix for 1 minute longer.
- Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt. Fold in chocolate chips. Drop spoonfuls of cookie dough on top of the brownie batter, evenly, to try to cover most of it.
- Bake for 28 to 32 minutes or until the edges begin to set-up. If you are using milk chocolate chunks, sprinkle on the top the last 5 minutes of baking time. Once the bars are baked, let cool before cutting. To make it easier to cut, place the bars in the freezer for 20-30 minutes.
Notes
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
mine took over an hour to cook😭idk what i did wrong:(
This was amazing. My daughter made it with me and the texture and taste was phenomenal
Fantastic recipe! They turned out amazing and were perfectly baked!
Do you use salted or unsalted butter?
Either one will work. If using unsalted, make sure there is some salt added in for flavor balance.
Tried this recipe today and will definitely make it again! The only thing that could have made it better was to put a scoop of ice cream on top. Sooooo good. Definitely going to make these again.
thank you! I am now the Goddess Of Girls Weekend! I added caramel I made to the top of the brownie batter before the cookie dough. couldnt really taste it but I got 4 marriage proposals out of these regardless ???? they were all from my sister in laws and one from my mother in law ????????❤️
Has anyone found a more accurate bake time for these? If I half the recipe and bake in a 9×9 square pan and bake for 28 minutes, they come out well. However, if I use the full recipe and bake in the 9×13 pan they take forever to bake and I eventually give up and they come out raw and uncooked. I love the recipe (and all recipes on this site 🙂 ). I just want to find out how long to bake these beauties for.
I made these and cooked them for 35 minutes and for some reason they didnt cook fully. I cooked them in the same sized tray as well.
Does anybody know how to properly spread the cookie dough on top of the brownie batter because my cookie dough didn’t spread evenly over the surface and the way I did it was use a cookie dough scooper and placed the round balls on top of the brownie batter. Should I have used something different?
Whist made this tonight and WOW! This was my first time making brownies from scratch. I’d been looking for a good recipe for a bit and I’m glad I came across this one! I did at about 2tbps less of white sugar for each parts of the recipe and it was still perfectly sweet! I was afraid it wouldn’t rise well because the brownie batter was so thin along the base of the 13×9 but it rose beautifully! We ate it warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I can’t wait to make it again!