Brownie Cookies

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The eternal question of brownies versus cookies finally has an answer; why not both? This recipe combines cookies and brownies in a tasty double layer, ensuring that everyone is happy, whether they prefer cookies or brownies.

For even more festive baking ideas, make sure to try these Christmas Crack Cookies as a holiday treat! Or, to really wow your guests over the holidays, learn how to make your own Retro Betty Crocker Candy Cane Cookies!

Brownie Cookies

Cookies… or brownies?

This age-old question can never truly be answered, so why not split the difference and make both?

This recipe makes for a layered combination of both brownies and cookies, producing a tender, sweet, and chocolaty dessert that combines the best qualities of both types of dessert.

Serve this up whenever you can’t be sure your guests are brownie or cookie people or just whenever you feel like having the best of both worlds on your own.

Is It Worth Buying Expensive Cocoa Powder?

Cocoa powder has always been one of those divisive ingredients when it comes to quality – should you get the high-quality, expensive stuff, or can you just pick up whatever is cheapest?

Well, cocoa, just like regular chocolate, has a pretty big swing in quality from the cheapest to the most expensive stuff.

There is always a few different types of cocoa powder as well, just to help complicate things.

Luckily, for this recipe, the cocoa powder simply adds a nice chocolaty layer of flavor to the brownies, as well as plenty of dark brown color, so feel free to use whatever kind of cocoa powder you can get your hands on.

However, if you don’t mind spending a bit more money, getting cocoa powder labeled as “Dutch processed” will not only give you a deeper color that is almost red rather than brown, but it will also taste a lot more intensely chocolaty and rich.

Could You Use A Combination Of Different Chocolate Chips?

This recipe calls for the use of semi-sweet chocolate chips, which are great for making things like this because they don’t add too much additional sugar to something that is already sweet.

Good quality semi-sweet chocolate chips should melt really well while primarily giving every bite that hit of intense chocolate flavor.

However, if you aren’t partial to semi-sweet chocolate chips, or you just don’t particularly enjoy them, feel free to mix it up with some sweet chocolate chips or even darker ones instead!

You can also play around with the color of your chocolate chips – a blend of white chocolate and milk chocolate is always a great combination, or go for something darker with a blend of milk chocolate and dark chocolate, ideally about 70% cocoa.

You could also use chocolate chunks instead of chips if you wanted. The main difference between the two is that chips melt a lot more easily, but chunks retain that solid bite of chocolate in every bite, so it just depends on what you are personally looking for in every bite.

Making Festive Shapes Rather Than Regular Bars

If you want to transform your brownie cookies into something a little more festive, don’t just cut everything into individual bars of equal size – use a cookie cutter and make something fun!

Shapes like Christmas trees, stars, Christmas ornaments, or even Hanukkah candles would all work really well.

Just keep in mind that if you use shapes, especially ones with a ton of irregular edges, then you will end up with a lot of extra cookie bits; those will, sadly, have to become a part of the chef tax and be eaten on the spot.

Does The Ratio Of White To Brown Sugar Matter In This Recipe?

One of the main things that greatly differs between most sweet recipes online, especially cookie recipes, is the varying proportion of white to brown sugar.

It isn’t just about a color difference or even a personal flavor preference, though – different ratios of brown and white sugar can produce vastly different textures in your final cookies.

Brown sugar has a tendency to encourage chewier textures in the final dish, whereas white sugar produces more of a crisp firmness.

If you use one more than the other, you can expect to see significant changes in your final cookie layer.

Luckily though, because this recipe cooks the cookies in one big layer, any significant textural change from sugar types is limited in its effectiveness because of the fact that it is all in one solid sheet.

Still, though, feel free to play around with the types of sugar for this recipe to make whatever flavor profile you personally prefer.

Looking for more delicious chocolaty Cookie recipes? Try these out:

• Cheesecake Filled White Chocolate Red Velvet Cookies

• Peppermint Kiss Chocolate Cookies

• Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

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