“Homemade, chewy brownies topped with from-scratch, soft batch chocolate chip cookies! Easy, crowd-pleasing recipe chocolate chip cookie brownies!”
Watch me make these homemade chocolate chip cookie brownies from start to finish!
Brownies and chocolate chip cookies. Nuff said! It’s like…an obvious win-win! I think my mother was making this dessert long before it became the thing. She was always combining desserts and dishes to create new ones. I was always so excited when I came home from school to a plate of these. I mean how cool is having a brownie and a chocolate chip cookie all in one?
Pair these chocolate chip cookie bars with vanilla ice cream and caramel fudge and lordt have mercy!! It’s almost too good! I’d know because that’s exactly what my husband and I did for an afternoon treat today and it was insanity.
I’m surprised at how many recipes out there opt for the box brownie for this recipe. I LOVE boxed brownies, don’t get me wrong, but homemade ones tasted amazing with this recipe! It really gives it that old fashioned “grandma made these with love” vibe. The brownie recipe bakes up chewy and slightly fudgey, making it perfect to pair with soft chocolate chip cookies!
I prefer to eat them slightly under-cooked so that the cookie is slightly gooey, yet it firms up to the perfect creamy texture once it’s cooled off.
Oh but let me warn you, these are rich and perfectly sweet. A little goes a long way so cut them into small squares to serve.
Don’t think that you are limited to this recipe alone! These chocolate chip cookie brownies are super customizable! Throw in walnuts, toffee, mint chips, M & M’s (my boys favorite), candies or cookies! It’s also fun to add in different extracts into the brownie mixture like coffee, rum, or mint.
The Recipe
Homemade Brookies Bars Recipe | Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownie Bars
By Divas Can Cook
Ingredients
- CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- ¼ cup brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (plus more to press on top)
- CHEWY COCOA BROWNIES
- 10 Tablespoon butter, melted
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¾ cup cocoa powder
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven 350 F.
- Line a 8 X 8 pan with grease parchment paper, set aside.
- To make the chocolate chip cookies dough, in a large bowl cream together butter, brown sugar and white sugar.
- Beat in egg and vanilla extract.
- Stir in flour, baking soda and salt until well combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips. Set aside.
- To make the brownie batter, in a large bowl cream together butter, brown sugar, and white sugar.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla extract.
- Stir in cocoa powder until combined.
- Stir in flour and salt until all flour is incorporated.
- Fold in mini chocolate chips if using.
- Spread brownie batter into prepared pan into an even layer.
- Drop the cookie dough by the spoonful over the batter until covered.
- Stick additional chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes. (I prefer to remove them from the oven a bit early since I prefer my cookies a little on the undercooked side.) Remember it will continue to cook as it cools so be careful not to overbake. Check it at the 30 minute mark.
- Remove from oven and place on a cooing rack to finish cooling.
- Once cooled, cut into squares and serve.
- Store in airtight container.
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I have them in the oven now and am really excited to see them finished. My only suggestion is that bakers should sift the cocoa powder into the recipe. There are so many larger clumps and I was trying to break them up in the batter, which is harder than if I had sifted it in the first place. Otherwise, they look gorgeous so far!
I made this for a work potluck. It was a hit. So much so, that our office is attending a conference out of town, and I was requested to make them again.
Is it better to use a metal pan instead of glass – if it is okay how would that change the cooking time and temp? I use a glass pan and took them out at 32 mins but it was hard to tell if they were cooked. When I would stick to tooth pick in I couldn’t tell if is was undone brownie or the chocolate chips from the cookie part. Afterwards letting it cool some and cutting a piece off realized the cookie part didn’t seem to be done – tried to put it back in the oven to bake some more. At this point the inside was cooking but the top of the cookies were browning too much eventually making them hard.
I’ve made this recipe twice this month already. Thanks.
This recipe was everything! I put caramel with mines! Fantastic! Thank you for sharing!
So good I’m making it next week for my teacher birthday
Does it matter if it’s unsweetened cocoa powder?
Romaine!
Oh my goodness, gotta try these real soon. In regards to the giveaway, there is no one person, my total family makes the holidays for me and seeing them happy.
Why can I not pin this? Thx Shey