‘Best of Both Worlds’ Brookie Bars definitely prevail the best of both worlds when you bake ultra chocolatey brownies and soft-batch chocolate chip cookies together to get delicious, amazing Cookie Brownie Bars!
And honestly?
Just feel free to inhale. (I won’t tell, I promise, I’ll be right there with you.)
At least for a minute or three. 🙂 These brookie bars of yumminess will definitely get your attention.
It’s cool the way the cookie dough and brownies and all those chocolate chips all inter-connect with each other, don’t ya think? They are soft, thick, chewy and ‘amaze-balls’, as they say!
So are you a brownie person?
Or are you a chocolate chip cookie person?
If you love brownies, 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.
If you’re a chocolate chip cookie person, 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.
Or you can stick with the best of both worlds. 🙂
Best of Both World Brookie Bars = Cookie Brownie Bars
Ingredients
Brownie Dough:
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Dash of Salt
- 1 cup white chocolate chips or chunks
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough:
- ½ cup butter cold
- 1/3 cup + 2 Tablespoons white sugar
- 1/2 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 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 pam.
- 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.
Yes!!! Definitely the best of both worlds! I will have to make this for my stepdaughter Brooke because I always call her Brookie hehehe. Pinning!! And loved, loved, loved seeing you on The Kitchen! Congrats my friend!
I’m glad you watched it! Thank so much Kelly and yes Brookie will definitely love these!!
First–YAY KIM for being on The Kitchen on Saturday! I was so excited you got to cook with Jeff because he’s my favorite! Second, I hope you saved a few of these for me because they look delicious! Have a great week, my dear!
Thank you so much Kelsie! He is sooo much fun! They are totally yummy Kelsie! I have a few left…come on over! haha it’s freezing here.
I always love a treat that’s two treats rolled into one! Especially when chocolate is involved! Theis one’s a keeper, for sure! Thanks!
It’s hard to choose between two things, but I’m probably more a brownies person…but I won’t ignore a good cookie packed with chocolate either! Well, I guss you’ve created a perfect dessert. Is it dedicated to me, right? 😉
I definitely did! 🙂 I’m more of a brownie person too! 😉 But these are super yummy together for sure! Thanks Ben!