When a chocolate craving strikes, I turn to dessert recipes like mint brownies, chocolate chip cupcakes, peppermint cookies, Oreo brownies, Nutella cookies or these super easy brownie cookies. These cookies contain simple ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry, and they always get rave reviews. These brownie cookies are the best of both worlds – you get that classic, gooey chocolate brownie flavor, in a handheld chewy cookie form! Once you try these cookies, you’ll find yourself making them on the regular. If you’re a chocolate fan, this is a must-make dessert.
Brownie Cookie Ingredients
To make this recipe, you will need semisweet chocolate bars, butter, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla extract, all purpose flour, salt and baking powder.
How Do You Make Brownie Cookies?
Fudgy brownie cookies are all about the chocolate. Make brownie cookies by first melting chocolate chunks with butter and mixing them together. Stir in eggs, brown sugar and vanilla. Mix in the dry ingredients of flour, salt and baking powder. The last ingredient for the dough is chocolate chunks. Stir in the chocolate chunks, then chill the dough. Make balls out of the dough, place a few chocolate chunks on top of the cookies, and the dough is ready to bake on sheet pans. Let the cookies cool, then serve and enjoy.
Tips For The Perfect Cookies
The dough will look like a batter, which is fine because it will firm up when it’s chilled in the fridge. I recommend using high quality chocolate bars for this recipe. You can easily chop the bars into bite sized chunks, and the flavor will be superior to the bags of pre-cut chocolate chunks you buy in the store. I recommend brands such as Guittard and Ghirardelli. Do not use chocolate chips for this recipe, they often contain stabilizers and additives unlike chocolate bars. You can make the cookies as big or as small as you like, just be sure to adjust the baking time accordingly.
Flavor Variations
I typically make this recipe as written, but you can change up the ingredients to suit your tastes.
Chocolate: You can use milk chocolate or white chocolate chunks stirred into the dough instead of semisweet chocolate. Add-ins: Stir in 1/2 cup of miniature M&M’s, walnuts, pecans, coarsely chopped peanut butter cups or toffee bits to the dough for extra texture. You can also add a pinch of flaky sea salt to taste on top of the cookies. Spices: Try flavoring the dough with a pinch of cinnamon, espresso powder or even ancho chili powder for a cookie with a bit of a kick.
These treats have all the bold chocolate flavor of brownies in an easy to eat cookie form. These cookies will be a hit at your next picnic, party or get together!
