These Chocolate Brownie Cookies are everything you love about a fudgey, chewy and crinkly brownie, in cookie form. They are gooey on the inside, with a crispy outer shell. For Halloween, I like to add monster eyes to these cookies, but these cookies are great for any occasion! * This recipe was adapted from Food & Wine
Ingredients
- 1 pound semisweet chocolate
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 4 large eggs at room temperature (I place mine in a bowl of warm water)
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 12 oz semisweet chocolate chips
- candy eyes
Instructions
- In a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water, melt the chocolate with the butter, stirring a few times, until smooth, about 7 minutes.
- In a small bowl, sift together the flour and baking powder. Set aside
- In another large bowl, using a handheld electric mixer beat the eggs with the sugar at medium speed until thick and pale, about 5 minutes. Beat in the vanilla and salt.
- Using a rubber spatula, fold in the melted chocolate a little at a time, then fold in the flour and baking powder.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Scrape the batter into a shallow baking dish, or bowl, cover and freeze until well-chilled and firm, about 1 hour. You can also keep it in the refrigerator for few hours or overnight. **This step is very important! If you don't chill the dough enough, the cookies will spread all over when you bake them.
- Preheat the oven to 350 and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Working in batches, scoop 2-tablespoon-size mounds of dough onto the prepared baking sheets, about 2 inches apart.
- If you are adding candy eyes, bake for about 5 minutes, remove from the oven and add the eyes. Return to the oven for another 5 minutes until the cookies are dry around the edges and cracked on top.
- If you are not using candy eyes, bake for about 10 minutes until the cookies are dry around the edges and cracked on top.
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely before serving.
