Brookies From Scratch
I don’t know if you have had the pleasure of enjoying Brookies yet, have you?? These masterful cookies are a fabulous mash-up of brownies and cookies ALL IN ONE. Brownie+Cookies=Brookies
These Brookies from scratch feature chocolate chip cookie dough and brownie cookie dough made into cookies rolled together and baked up into the best thing you’ll put in your mouth all year. BROOKIES.
Why make Brookies?
Why not, right? There’s no better reason for baking than why not. Sometimes you don’t know what you want to bake and sometimes you have a difficult crowd to please. No matter what they’ll love these brookies from scratch. If you JUST want one kind of dough and it has to be brownie try these Fudgy Brownie Cookies!
BUT if you need a reason these cookies are great for:
- Parties
- Baby Showers-especially fun when you don’t know the gender they can signify either/or in a fun way
- Bake Sales
- Potlucks
- Christmas
- ANY OTHER TIME YOU NEED A GREAT COOKIE!
UPDATED NOTES ON THIS RECIPE
I received a nasty comment about these cookies spreading. So immediately I remade them to see if I had messed it up. Turns out I did not. BUT I did discover that I needed to completely chill the brownie cookie dough before using it. I have updated the directions in the recipe card to reflect this. Otherwise, these cookies turn out beautifully once chilled.
My OTHER Favorite Cookie Recipes
- Texas Sheet Cake Cookies. These are arguably the most popular cookies on my site. When You bake them you’ll know why, they’re dense and fudgy and chocolate cookie perfection!
- Kitchen Sink Cookies. These are going to be a very close runner-up popularity-wise with the Texas Sheet Cake Cookies. Filled with 2 kinds of chocolate, toffee pieces, and pretzels, they are truly delicious cookies.
- Florentines. These thin and crispy cookies are made with less flour to make them spread out. Filled with fruits and nuts these cookies are snappy and crispy.
- Snickerdoodle Bars. These are just like snickerdoodles except they’re baked in bars instead of dropped one by one. DELICIOUS!
- Carrot Cake Bars. Everything you love in carrot cake but in bar form. Crispy base, sweet filling, and even has a sweet cream cheese drizzle of icing!
What do I need to Make Brookies From Scratch?
- flour
- butter
- chocolate chips
- dutch process cocoa
- instant coffee or espresso powder
- salt
- baking soda
- sugar
- eggs (Baking without eggs? These replacements will do the trick)
- brown sugar
- vanilla
- chocolate chips
Recipe Substitutions
This recipe does ok with recipe substitutions. You could use margarine in the dough just be aware that the cookies may spread more as margarine has more water in it. I would not use other flour in the recipe unless you’re using a 1:1 baking flour substitution.
Recipe Variations
You can add different kinds of chocolate chips to the recipe. OR swap them out for white chocolate. Also adding toffee bits wouldn’t hurt these one bit. The same goes for peanut butter chips. Variations are good!
Got Extra Chocolate Chips?
The you’re in luck! If you’ve ever found a stash of chocolate chips in your cupboard or pantry and don’t know what to do with them, then my cookbook Chip Off the Old Block is the e-book you need! This book is designed to help you creatively use chocolate chips while saving money and stretching your food budget.
Brookies
Ingredients
Brownie Batter Dough
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 2 TBSP butter
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 TBSP Dutch process cocoa
- 1/2 tsp instant coffee or espresso powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 1 1/4 all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 5 TBSP softened butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 cup semi chocolate chips
Instructions
- for the brownie batter dough: melt the chocolate chips and butter together over very low heat, don't get any water in it or the chocolate will seize, once melted let it cool
- meanwhile, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, dry instant coffee, salt, and baking soda
- in a separate bowl beat the egg and the sugar until it's light yellow
- stir the chocolate into the eggs and well combined
- then fold in the flour just until combined
- cover and refrigerate until ready to use
- whisk together the flour, salt, and soda, set aside
- cream the butter and both sugars until fluffy
- add the egg and vanilla and mix well
- stir in the flour until combined
- add the chocolate chips
- Chill the chocolate chip cookie dough alongside the brownie cookie dough until both are well chilled
- To Make Brookies: prehat the oven to 350° and line two baking sheets with parchment paper
- scoop out the chocolate chip cookie dough into 18 pieces repeat with the brownie cookie dough set them beside the chocolate chip cookie dough
- quickly roll each set into a ball with your hands, and place it back onto the cookie sheet seam side up to ensure that both brownie dough and cookie dough can be seen, flattening slightly
- bake for 12-14 minutes until the edges are browned and the center is not totally set
- let them cool on the cookie sheet for about 5 minutes to set up and then transfer to a baking rack to cool
Video
Nutrition
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This is such an inventive idea! My kiddos love them!
Oh my word these are heavenly! We had made brookie bars before but used pre-made dough from the store. It is so worth making homemade brookies! Will make these again and again, thank you.
These brookies were amazing! Bookmarking to make it again 🙂
Totally decadent! My family loved these!
Oh my, what a delicious combination! My family loved these, and they were devoured in a matter of minutes!
This was delicious! I’ll definitely make some more again!
In order to print the Brookies recipe, it was required that I sign up with my email, which I did Twice.
Still not able to print!
They spread into one big sheet pan cookie. I do not recommend this a Brookie recipe.
WRONG. Your comment made me go make them AGAIN. And they are perfect. The only thing I did differently was recognize that the brownie batter dough was still warm and I chilled it to get it down to temp.
you can watch the process here https://www.tiktok.com/@littlehousebigak/video/7580202411852188942?_r=1&_t=ZT-91xWHCvjQa5