Brownie Cookies

​What do you do when you're home alone on a Tuesday afternoon, writing blog posts when an overwhelming craving for chocolate comes over you?  You make a batch of brownie cookies and eat them warm hot out of the oven.

​I was posting pictures for my Master Chocolate Chip Cookies when I just had to get up from the computer and find some chocolate - FAST.  (Power of suggestion I guess.)  My go to chocolate fix is chocolate chips but on this particular day, that was just not going to cut it.  I needed something deep, rich, dark and chocolaty to sink my teeth into.  Then it hit me - I had a recipe for brownie cookies saved to one of my pinterest boards.  Yep - a chocolate brownie cookie was exactly what I was craving.  

I pulled up the recipe from pastryaffair.com and started baking.  These were even easier to make than I thought.  Almost too easy really - this recipe could be dangerous.  I better have a batch ready the next time I need to write a blog post about chocolate. 

Brownie Cookies
Yields about 18 cookies
4 tablespoons (56 grams) butter 
3 ounces (85 grams) unsweetened chocolate, chopped 
2 ounces (55 grams) semisweet chocolate, chopped 
2 large eggs 
3/4 cup (150 grams) brown sugar, packed 
1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated sugar 
1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
3/4 cup (95 grams) all-purpose flour 
1/2 teaspoon baking powder 
1/4 teaspoon salt 
1/2 cup (85 grams) chocolate chips

​In a large saucepan, melt the butter and chopped chocolate over low heat until smooth.

Remove from heat. Stir in the eggs, sugars, and vanilla extract.

​Fold in the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Allow the batter to cool to room temperature before adding the chocolate chips.

Drop batter by the tablespoon onto a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes, or until set.

Cool for several minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.

​Add a glass of milk - chocolate perfection.

​ Chocolate craving?  Not this girl.  I've got brownie cookies.

Once I have my cookie in hand, I could keep going on the Christmas decorations.  I've got a few more things to put up before I can officially declare this house "decorated" but I've got a pretty good start on it.  

​I may be taking this Christmas decorating too far - I decorated Mia!  (She secretly loves wearing her jingle bells.)  This weekend we will put up our tree and then the decorating will be finished.  

Ciao!

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