Thursday, September 9, 2010

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies

There are 3 major new things Eric loves to get. New hockey sticks. New socks. New cookies. Actually thats a lie. Eric's favorite cookie is chocolate chip. Period. Used to be sugar when he was growing up, but now, chocolate chip, every time. He also favorites mint chocolate chip ice cream, pepperoni pizza and a double cheeseburger. Ask anyone who's gone out for food with him, and you'll find that he likes what he likes, and doesn't see any reason to go with something he likes less just to conform (even if that means he gets to be the butt of half the lunch time jokes). Then along came Charisse and Eric's ordering went from "I'll eat what I've always liked, because I like it" to "You'll eat whats for dinner because your too darn picky, and you'll like it because I told you too". Hello marriage.

Eric couldn't be happier to have Charisse pushing him out of his "normal" zone, which in retrospect was rarely normal, and most often just plain weird. Except for Salami wrapped around cream cheese. An excellent, easy to prepare appetizer introduced to him by his sister Elaine. Devilishly simple, really good tasting as long as you like both salami and cream cheese. But this is not what Charisse used to pick up his spirits after his team got knocked out of the playoffs early. Oh no, Charisse put together one of the best comfort desserts ever made. Ever. This dessert combines Chocolate Chip Cookies with Brownies and Chocolate Ganache. It is literally the end of any diet known to man (or woman). Imagine, biting into the moistest chocolate chip cookie, feeling the chocolate chips melt on contact while the cookie dissolves into pure goodness between bites. This is washing down a brownie, fresh out of that pan that puts an edge on every piece, the flavor pushing through   with every crunching chomp. You better have a glass of milk nearby to wash down the chocolate ganache that coats the roof of your mouth with pure molten chocolate. Can you tell we're missing these already?




Brownie Batter
What You Will Need
5 ounces semi sweet chocolate pieces
1 stick unsalted butter
2 Tbs coco powder
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
3/4 cup flour

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough 
What You Will Need
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs
1 12 ounce bag of chocolate chips

Chocolate Ganache 
What You Will Need
1 12 ounce semi sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup heavy cream
6 Tbs butter


Preheat oven to 350*

Make brownie batter: Melt butter and chocolate pieces together and mix in coco powder. Combine butter mixture with eggs, sugar and vanilla and whisk until smooth. Stir in flour.  Set aside

Make cookie dough: Beat sugars and butter until fluffy, add eggs and vanilla mix thoroughly.  Add in flour, baking soda and salt and combine.  Mix in chocolate chips. Set aside.

Grease a 9x13 baking dish and drop spoonfuls of cookie batter into the pan, scatter evenly.  Pour brownie batter over cookie dough and even out in pan.  Bake for 35-40 minutes. Let cool.

In a small sauce pot, melt butter with cream. Once hot and melted, stir in chocolate and whisk until smooth. Pour over brownies in pan and even our top. Let set completely, cut into squares and enjoy!

29 comments:

  1. omg I am horrified. Now I will make these every weekend and be the size of the side of a barn! Good going, my jeans are tightening as we speak!

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  2. This is the kind of recipe dreams are made out of

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  3. yum, looks delicious! i think my fiance might actually eat this dessert, so i guess i'll have to make a pan for each of us.

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  4. Oh my good lord in heaven, this looks so AH-MAZING!! This is like my dream in a pan, haha! I just have to make these now, thanks so much!

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  5. My two favorites in one pan...god help me! Saving...I might just have to bake a batch one weekend soon!

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  6. Eric sounds like my husband Keith haha. He tends to order what he has had and won't try a new thing. This will change him and blow him away! I absolute love this. My 3 favorite things are in one piece!

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  7. I'm totally making these...if I can get them in the pan without eating all the dough and batter!

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  8. Crap, my laptop keyboard nearly short circuited from my drooling over those brownies!! Great capture, yummy looking recipe! Definitely bookmarking this one.

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  9. Wow, those might just kill me in one fell swoop. I'd like to dive right into all of those amazing pictures!

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  10. I'm not a brownie fan but, holy crapola, I'm totally digging this recipe!

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  11. What a fantastic idea! Those look sooo good. Decadent, gooey goodness of two/three desserts wrapped up into one. ;)

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  12. Yum! I've had chocolate chip cookie dough brownies but not topped with chocolate ganache!! How delicious.. I'm saving this recipe for sure!!

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  13. now just make that into a pazookie and i'll never had to make anything else. :)

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  14. Those look great. Combining two awesome chocolate treats into one was a great idea.

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  15. I'm so making these for my family! They look divine!

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  16. Ok, this recipe looks AMAZING. I definitely wouldn't mind being pushed out of my comfort zone for something like that!

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  17. LO freaking L! You and your hubby seem just like my fiance and I only in reverse. I am the picky eater who is being re-trained and re-programmed. He's managed to turn me into a wannabe foodie who now blogs often about food. Yea, he's created a monster.

    Brownies. Chocolate chip cookie dough. Brownies. Chocolate chip cookie dough. One word...no wait, make that two: MAJOR YUM!

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  18. Holy food porn.

    Please excuse me while I scrape my jaw off the floor!

    I will be making these!!

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  19. wow. these look amazing. beautiful photography too!

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  20. What a great idea to combine cookie dough and brownies, and of course as long as there is chocolate, I will not resist. So tempting and delicious.

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  21. Yum! These look beyond amazing! Loving the cookie dough.

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  22. Ed and I made a quick version of this on Saturday night. We offered to bring a dessert to a diner party about an hour before we were supposed to leave. We're slackers, we didn't made anything from scratch. We used ready bake cookie dough already in ball-like form from Fresh n' Easy. 6 chocolate chip dough and 6 peanut butter doughs. Then we made up Ghirardelli Dark chocolate brownie mix and poured it over the balls of cookie dough and baked for 45 minutes then threw it in a cooler and ran off the the diner party.
    Thanks for the great idea. it was a hit!

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  23. @Jodie

    So glad you and your friends enjoyed them! I like the addition of peanut butter cookie dough involved! Yummy! Nice touch!

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  24. Oh wow...I'm drooling. Two of my favorite desserts put together! :)

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