- If the best brownie ever
and the most amazing chocolate chip cookie came together
to make the perfect dessert,
it might just be this chocolate chip cookie bar.
Fudgy, gooey, crispy, crunchy. (chuckles)
It has it all, including that brown sugar,
that butter, that chocolate, the works.
Hey, you're watching Preppy Kitchen, where I, John Kanell,
teach you how to make delicious homemade dishes
to share with your family and friends.
These cookie bars are gonna whip up in a snap,
so let's get started.
First off, prep your eight by eight inch dish
by lining it with parchment paper, or foil.
I like parchment paper better,
because it just fits so nicely in there.
Look at this.
Perfectly in there.
You can lift it right out.
Nothing's gonna tear either.
Okay, set that aside.
Now let's whisk up the dry ingredients,
starting with 2 1/4 cups, or 270 grams of all-purpose flour,
one tablespoon of corn starch.
Using a teaspoon of salt here.
I want it to be nice and have a good bite
to contrast with all the sweetness
of the chocolate and the sugar.
Now, one teaspoon of baking soda for leavening.
'Kay, whisk it all up, set it aside.
And now for the wet ingredients.
We've got some other parents coming over
for a combined play date,
so I thought these chocolate chip cookie bars would be
the perfect easy snack to have hanging around,
in addition to some coffee. (chuckles)
Into a large bowl,
I'm adding 3/4 of a cup,
or 170 grams, of a melted butter,
2/3 of a cup, or 133 grams, of regular white sugar,
and then one cup, or 200 grams,
of brown sugar, lightly packed.
'Kay, you can mix this up.
It's gonna form kind of a thick slurry now,
a butter/sugar slurry.
If you have lumps of brown sugar, just mash them up.
Now I'm gonna add in one tablespoon
of a nice vanilla extract and aromatic.
Oh, I love it.
And then two room temperature eggs.
Switch to a whisk.
And yes, you could do this in a stand mixer
or with an electric mixer,
but if I'm making chocolate chip cookie bars,
I don't mind getting a little exercise in.
Whisk it together.
Try not to eat this right now, because it is just like
heaven on a stick.
I don't know what to say.
It's delicious, but control yourself.
And after it's whisked together,
you're gonna dump in the dry mixture.
This is so easy.
It's like,
"Hello, why isn't this every day?"
And I'm gonna use my spatula, just to fold it in.
You could use a whisk.
I just think it'll be a little bit easier.
And to be honest,
I like the way it feels.
It's so like, ahhh.
It's bringing me some relaxation vibes. (chuckles)
And once this gets to a point of being mostly incorporated,
we're gonna add our chocolate chips,
And you have choices here.
Just chocolate chips?
Sure.
Add some more things?
Why not?
So you could add in half a cup or a full cup
of chopped toasted pecans, or walnuts, macadamia nuts,
whatever you like.
And then for the chocolate itself,
yes, you could use semi-sweet chocolate.
If you're following along on a blog,
But today, I'm gonna mix it up and use half-and-half,
semisweet and bittersweet.
So, the only thing I'm gonna tell you is
take the handful of chocolate chips and set them aside.
This is so you can just dot the top of your cookie bars
with some nice clean chocolate chips,
the same that you would do with cookies.
So, set those aside.
And now toss the rest in, and fold 'em in.
If you want, you could use M & M's in here,
or butterscotch candy.
It's really like whatever you enjoy eating.
The only thing I want you to do is just try
and distribute the chocolate chips fairly evenly,
so that one bar has one chocolate chip
and the other one is complete chocolate chips.
No, you wanna have it be fairly even.
And here, you see, in this step,
we're just finishing up with the mixing as well,
so any little pockets of the dry mixture
are gonna be worked in there.
This is ready to transfer
to our prepared eight inch baking dish.
You could use a nine inch baking dish as well.
That'll just be a bit thinner,
but that's still totally delicious.
'Kay, plop this in here carefully.
Plop.
Actually, (chuckles)
doesn't have to be carefully.
This is reminding me of my brownie recipe.
You can click up here for that.
Oh, my God, that brownie is like the fudgiest,
most delicious thing in the world,
with that nice crackled top.
Ah, it's amazing.
'Kay, just smooth the top out.
This recipe is seriously the even less fussier version
of a chocolate chip cookie,
'cause there's not worry about anything,
anything at all. (chuckles)
You're just dumping everything in, mixing it up.
And now, I can take my reserved chocolate chips,
and just dot the surface with them.
I'm gonna just have some nice glossy chocolate moments
all across the top,
and you're gonna get that the best way
if there's no cookie batter.
One last thing before I forget,
and this is totally optional,
is you can take some flaked sea salt,
and just sprinkle it on top.
Just a little bit of that crunchy, salty bite
with the chocolate and the brown sugar,
you're gonna love it,
unless you don't.
In which case, skip that step.
It's up to you.
All right, now you're gonna pop this into the oven
for 30 plus minutes.
It kinda depends on how done you want them.
Do you want that kinda gooey, delicious,
fudgey moment in the middle?
Then 30 minutes.
Do you want them baked
that are a bit more set up?
Add an extra five or 10 minutes on there.
It's really your personal preference.
I'm currently intoxicated by this amazing cookie bar to be.
Look at this.
Do you see?
What? (laughs)
It's so good.
Oh, my gosh.
All right, this is now firm enough to remove
without it crumpling.
You just wanna let it set.
Remove that paper.
Do you see how amazing this parchment paper situation is?
It's one of my favorite things.
We're just gonna cut these up into bars,
and they will go in a flash.
It'll be so quick.
You can go big or small depending on how you feel.
I don't know.
Let me know in the comments
if you want the edge piece, or the middle.
I'm conflicted myself, so I'll have both. (chuckles)
Oh, my gosh, look at this.
This is like a crime scene of chocolate.
Molten chocolate inside.
Look at that.
If you could smell this, you would be in heaven.
I wanna just have this with a bite of ice cream,
or some milk and go to sleep. (chuckles)
No one's gonna notice if I just sneak one.
If you like this recipe, check out my cookie playlist,
all of my favorite cookies,
and you're gonna definitely find
your new favorite there too.
Okay, time for a bite.
Oh, my gosh (chuckles),
I got like palpitations. (chuckles)
This was so good.
It really is the cookie version of a brownie.
You've gotta try this recipe.
The vanilla, the brown sugar,
everything is working together,
and it just works.
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