For six weeks in partnership with Morrisons each Thursday we are up loading a new recipe
to the emotion cookbook.
Today we are making brookies.
That is a combination of chocolate chip cookies wedged with brownie to make the ultimate brookie
cookie.
Hello everyone welcome to my emotion kitchen bought to you by Morrisons emotion cookbook,
there is full information on that in the description down below with links to other recipes involving
todays emotion comfort.
Oh my gosh, Sunday nights I like nothing better than to sit down with a bowl of cookies, but
we aregoing to take cookies up a notch by making brookies, a combination of brownies
and cookies, boom.
You are going to love it.
So if you want to have a go at making these gorgeous brookies, hit pause on the video
now, write down these ingredients and get in that kitchen.
First step, we are going to do the brownie half of our cookies, and these cookies kind
of remind me of, I have shown you this before, when Boston and Amy sit in a bed together
and make a yin yang sign.
I�ll put an image up on the screen if you wish to see that.
Anyhow, first thing we are going to do is cream together our butter, now this room temperature
butter; well I put it in the micro wave for five seconds to soften it up.
Some light brown sugar and some granulated sugar as well ok.
The great thing about this recipe is the other half of the cookies is very similar but I
will come on to that in just a bit.
Bring in our whisk, now I am just going to start off lightly and we are just going to
like mix together the sugars and the butter.
So quite a steady speed, in fact if you want to use a hand whisk that�s fine, you just
don�t want it going everywhere.
Your wife will kill you.
So all we are looking to do is get it nice and creamy, so it is nearly there now, it
needs a good couple of minutes whisking.
So this is basically an egg that�s been cracked and one extra egg yolk to help stiffen
it, so we just drop that in boom.
A drop of vanilla extract, about a teaspoon, that�s all the wet in there.
See that real nice change in texture now it is all nice and combine take that off, and
all the dry ingredients go in together.
I don�t tend to sieve this but you can if you like, if it was a cake I probably would
for more air time, but his is plain flour, cocoa powder.
This is a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda and just a pinch of salt.
It might sound weird but adding salt really does increase the flavour.
And now gently whisk that together; take your time with it.
Alright there we go, it is quite a butch dough that is good because we want to handle it.
Now we have to make the cookie side which has got chocolate chips in it, which is basically
the same steps, except you add a little bit more flour, admit the cocoa, and add the chocolate
chips.
So we have got one bowl of cookie dough, we have got one bowl of brownie dough, and this
is just a bowl of water, just to help keep your hands slightly lubricated just when you
are handling it which we are about to do, it might just come in useful from time to
time.
So you are going to grab like a golf ball size amount of the cookie dough, like that,
and then with your other hand about an even sized amount of the brownie dough and then
just kind of like press them together.
Like that, do you see that, so now you can see why they are called brookies.
So just press it down, make sure you�ve got roughly the same sized amounts this one
is a little bit more brownieish, push it down there, kind of encourage it to get in to a
cookie shape, still a little higher.
And then just stick it on a lined baking tray like that.
I am going to repeat that over and over, you can see the reference to pugs now right.
Alright, just placing down my sixth one, I am spreading them quite well apart on this
tray because of the bicarbonate of soda in there no one likes a cookie when it hits the
top corner of the tray right and you get the right angle.
So these are going to go in the oven now only of about eight to ten minutes, you want to
get them still soft do not over bake them, temperatures are on your screen right now,
gas mark 4 or equivalent, lets go.
They have just come out the oven folks, I hope you will agree they are looking amazing,
look how big they have gone, they have kept that shape an design.
What you are looking for is a few little cracks just starting to appear there do not over
bake it, otherwise it will be like tish, about eight minutes is all you need.
We are just going to let them stand there cool for a couple of minutes to room temperature
and then we will transfer them to our wire rack.
Leave them on the wire rack now to cool down this is actually going to help them firm up
a tini bit as well, but they do taste nice still slightly warm from the oven.
Once they are at that stage we can plate them up and have a taste.
Here we go the best part, they are still slightly warm as I say we are going to take the top
one there.
I am loving that design on there, right down the middle here we go.
Ummm, oh my gosh, umm I am going to be very careful and not eat it all I am very tempted
to it is still soft, still gooey from the oven you get all that flavour working together,
the chocolate levels are through the roof, very naughty make sure you share them.
There we are then folks my recipe for brookies, proper comfort food on a plate, and I want
to know what your favourite comfort food id too, it could be something savoury.
In the comments below please let me know what that recipe is and why it is a comfort food
for you.
You could win a copy of my book and some Morrisons vouchers as this is the last recipe in the
play list, I will announce the winner on my twitter.
In the description down below there is a link to the Morrisons emotion cook book, so check
that out for more recipe inspiration especially around comfort food but please give these
ago they are stonking.