Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies; Comfort food for any day

Mumbai: Choco-chip cookies may be your choice of comfort food and chocolate brownies may push your limits of restraint, but imagine how irresistible Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies are on a relentlessly rainy day! And best of all, it’s not half as difficult as it sounds to bake at home. Yes, you’re welcome.

 
Chocolate chip cookie brownies

Ingredients
120 gm unsweetened chocolate, finely chopped
1 cup salted butter, melted
2 cups light brown sugar, packed
4 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ cup mini- chocolate chips

For the cookie dough
¾ cup salted butter, at room temperature
¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
¾ cup granulated white sugar
3 tbsp milk
1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ cups mini chocolate chips

Method
Prepare the brownies:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 9x13-inch pan with non-stick spray. In a medium glass bowl, melt chocolate in the microwave in short bursts of 30 seconds; stir after each burst and remove from microwave when melted and smooth. Set aside to cool slightly.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the butter and brown sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and whisk those in too. Mix in melted chocolate. Whisk in the flour and mix just until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips. Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 35 minutes. Watch closely and remove from oven when toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. Let cool completely.
Prepare the cookie dough:
In a medium bowl, combine butter, brown sugar and white sugar. Mix in milk and vanilla. Mix in flour just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
Spread cookie dough over the cooled brownies.
Refrigerate until the dough is quite firm. It’s okay to speed up the process and place it in the freezer too. The firmer the dough, the easier it will be to cut into neat squares. Use a sharp knife to cut the brownies. You may need to wipe the knife off with a paper towel in between cuts since the fudgy brownies and cookie dough will tend to stick to the knife a bit. These brownies are best to serve placed inside cupcake papers and served with a fork.

NOTE: An alternate way to make it is to fold in the brownie mixture into the cookie dough and make round, flat cookies. Bake these until the cookie exterior is fully cooked. To make sure that the brownie mixture doesn’t ooze out, be careful while making the balls of brownie-filled cookies. Bake for 15 minutes or so.