Brookies
If there is a bar cookie more fabulous than the brookie, we have yet to meet it. For the uninitiated, the brookie is a fabulous layered cookie-brownie hybrid. The bottom layer is a rich, dark, one-bowl brownie and the top layer is a chewy chocolate chip cookie. Not only are the bars gorgeous to look at with their dark bottoms and golden brown, chocolate studded tops, but the combo of flavors cannot be beat. The deeply chocolatey brownie layer is made all the more superb when topped with the best chewy chocolate chip cookie you ever did eat.
Because each layer of a brookie is made from an easy recipe, the whole shebang takes almost no time to assemble and no stand or hand mixers are required. Brookies bake up pretty quickly, so you can have the ultimate chocolate treat in under an hour.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1 3/4 cups light brown sugar (packed)
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
For the Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer:
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips (heaping)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (melted and cooled slightly)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar (packed)
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract