Best Brookie Bars
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This recipe for our Best Brookie Bars will definitely prevail the Best of Both Worlds when you bake ultra chocolatey brownies and soft-batch chocolate chip cookies together to get the best delicious, amazing Cookie Brownie Bars ever!
And honestly? Just feel free to inhale these gorgeous brookie bars! (I won’t tell, I promise, I’ll be right there with you.) At least for a minute or three. 🙂 More chocolate? Check out these Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Bars, Chocolate Chip & Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cake, and these Best Fudgy Brownie Cookies!
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Who Invented the Brookie?
So, Are You a Brownie Person?
I’m brownie all the way, but I can definitely be persuaded by chocolate chip cookies any day of the week!
More brownie love? These Salted Caramel Pretzel & Peanut Dark Chocolate Brownies (For the Win!), these Perfect Brownies {For that Chocolate ‘Fix‘} and these Irish Cream Chocolate Boozy Brownies should definitely be on your radar. Lunch Lady Brownies are always comforting and traditional, of course!
Or Are You a Chocolate Chip Cookie Person?
Chocolate Chip comes in at a close second, because who can turn down chocolate chip cookies, ever? You’ll be all smiles with these Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, these Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies! Pure Nirvana! and these S’more Chocolate Chip Gooey Bliss Cookies.
Can’t Decide Between Brownies or Chocolate Chip Cookies?
It’s Brownie and Cookie Mashup Time! This cookie brownie bar recipe is definitely the Best of Both Worlds and make the best Brookie Bars with a mashup of chocolate chip cookies and brownies together! Yummy in my tummy, thank you!
Combining the comforting flavors of a chocolate brownie and a delicious chocolate chip cookie, these bars are the ultimate indulgence.
More mashups? Try these Slutty Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Brownies!
Take Your Baking To The Next Level with These Brookie Bars
So, are you ready to take your baking to the next delicious level? Introducing the best brookie bars everyone will love! The perfect combination of decadent brownies and chewy chocolate chip cookies is super popular with home bakers everywhere and these bars are nothing short of amazing, trust me!
So if you haven’t given brookie bars a try, this easy, yet homemade brookie bar recipe of yumminess will definitely get your attention! I mean who can resist the way the chocolate chip cookie dough and brownies and all those chocolate chips
We’ll show you how to make the world’s best brownie cookie bars using a few simple steps. So, get ready for some serious baking goodness!
Basic Ingredients for the Perfect Brookies Recipe
Brownies Recipe
- granulated sugar
- unsalted butter
- unsweetened cocoa powder
- egg
- vanilla extract
- all-purpose flour
- baking powder
- salt
- white chocolate chips or chunks
Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
- butter
- granulated sugar
- brown sugar
- egg
- vanilla extract, optional
- all-purpose flour
- baking soda
- salt
- semi-sweet chocolate chips
+ mini chocolate chips or whatever you want to use.
Instructions How to Make the Best Brookie Bars
Brownie recipe
- Place the sugar, butter, and cocoa in large, microwave-safe bowl and microwave in 20 second intervals until the butter is completely melted and stir together until smooth and creamy.
- Add the egg until completely incorporated.
- Stir in the vanilla extract, optional.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and salt, stirring together until smooth, then stir in white chocolate chips and set aside.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough recipe
- Melt the butter in a large microwave safe bowl for 30-45 seconds until melted. (If butter is too hot, let it cool just a bit).
- Stir in the sugars. Add vanilla and egg and mix well.
- Combine dry ingredients together and stir into the butter/sugar mixture and mix together.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
How to Add the Brownies and Chocolate Chip Dough Together In The Pan
- Scoop cookie dough (about 2 tablespoon) into a parchment paper lined or sprayed with non-stick cooking spray prepared 9×13 pan, randomly in your baking pan.
- Fill in the spaces with scoops of brownie batter.
- Just keep adding scoops of each dough until finished using dough up. Smush the cookie dough and brownie scoops down so they touch each other. Add some extra chocolate chips on top and sprinkles if you want to make it more celebratory!
Baking the Brookies
- Bake for 25-28 minutes. Remember it will continue to cook as it cools so be careful not to overbake. Check it at the 25 minute mark.
- Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack to finish cooling.
- Once cooled, cut brookies bars recipe into squares and serve. Store in airtight container.
Other Option: These are homemade brookies, but if you want to make these using a boxed brownie mix or brownies in the tube and chocolate chip cookie dough in the tubes you can buy at the store, I suppose that would work as well. But of course, we love the homemade version!
Storing Brookie Cookie Bars
Brookies can be left at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days, if they last that long. If you want to freeze them in the freezer, they freeze well. Just make sure they’re cooled completely, place them in an airtight container or wrapped in plastic wrap, then foil. Brookies can be frozen for up to 3 months.
To sum up, our Best Brookie Bars recipe is quite simply the best of both worlds – a delicious combination of brownie and cookie in one indulgent and delectable dessert.
By combining the classic chocolate chip cookie and brownie flavors, this recipe is truly a match made in heaven. So, go ahead and whip up a batch of brookie bars and enjoy the smiles from all your friends and family! This decadent treat that is sure to be a crowd-pleaser for any special occasion. For an extra special treat, top these with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and some hot fudge and grab a spoon! Ohhhh Mama!
Looking For More Cookie Bars & Brownies!!
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Best of Both World Brookie Bars = Cookie Brownie Bars Recipe
Ingredients
Brownie Dough:
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- Dash of Salt
- 1 cup white chocolate chips or chunks
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough:
- ½ cup butter cold
- ⅓ cup + 2 Tablespoons white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract optional
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- Heaping ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- Heaping ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips + 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips or whatever you want to use.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Brownie Dough
- Place the sugar, butter, and cocoa in large, microwave-safe bowl and microwave in 20 second intervals until the butter is completely melted and stir together until smooth and creamy.
- Add the egg until completely incorporated.
- Stir in the vanilla extract, optional.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and salt, stirring together until smooth, then stir in white chocolate chips and set aside.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
- Melt the butter in a large microwave safe bowl for 30-45 seconds until melted. (If butter is too hot, let it cool just a bit).
- Stir in the sugars. Add vanilla and egg and mix well.
- Combine dry ingredients together and stir into the butter/sugar mixture and mix together.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Scoop Cookie dough (about 2 tbsp) into a parchment paper lined or sprayed with non-stick cooking spray prepared 9x13 pan, randomly in pan.
- Fill in the spaces with scoops of brownie dough.
- Just keep adding scoops of each dough until finished using dough up. Smush the cookie dough and brownie scoops down so they touch each other. Add some extra chocolate chips on top and sprinkles if you want to make it more celebratory!
- Bake for 25-28 minutes. Remember it will continue to cook as it cools so be careful not to overbake. Check it at the 25 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.
