Chocolate Brownie Cookies

February 24, 2019

Ok, Brownies are my favourite, well, one of my favourites.

It is hard to pass one up. It has to have nuts in it for me to pass, really.

So when I saw these I was excited.

Now, my brownie making experience is pretty limited. Limited to the Ghirardelli mixes at Costco, which are amazing and soooo easy to make. It takes longer to bake than to drive to Costco, buy the mix and make it.

This recipe calls for the melting of chocolate on the stove, already making it more labour intensive than my Costco go-to.

So not a difficult bake. Ingredients are pretty standard.

I got nervous when I was finished with the batter. It looked more like cake batter, not even brownie batter. It was very runny, and I was concerned about it spreading all over the cookie sheet.

I used my ice cream scoop/cupcake scoop/cookie scoop to put it on the tray and but I was not convinced. They were blobs, not cookies

Also, this recipe says it will make about 30 cookies. Well my first tray’s cookies were on the larger size and I was only able to squeak out 24 in total. I mean, who doesn’t want a big brownie cookie, really?

If I make this one again, and let’s be honest, I will because, BROWNIES! I will adjust the cookie size to make them more uniform and proper quantity.

“That’s a good cookie!” was the response from my husband.

It is chocolatey and gooey in the middle with a crisp outside. It is more like a cakey cookie. Major difference than the Chocolate Chunk Cookies we made before.

The hardest part for these cookies is the melting chocolate and having unsweetened chocolate on hand – which I usually don’t until now.