- Hey, I'm John Kanell.
Today on Preppy Kitchen, we're making brookies.
So let's get started.
For this delicious combination of brownies and cookies,
I'm gonna melt of half a cup of butter.
That's gonna happen in the microwave.
So just pop that in.
My butter is hot and melty.
This is a great time to bloom the cocoa powder,
which just means you're melting it in a hot fat.
We're gonna use a third of a cup of cocoa powder.
And if you watch this channel, you know,
I love to sift it out,
but today that's not gonna happen
because of the blooming.
We're gonna give this a nice whisk
just to incorporate it in
and you can see that beautiful, like fudgy color
comes out right away.
That's amazing.
It's one of the secrets to a delicious brownie is to always
add the cocoa powder with the butter or oil,
if you're using that.
Oh, look at this, look at that.
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Now we're gonna whisk in half a cup of granulated sugar.
It's like a hundred grams.
This bowl's pretty small.
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And then half a cup of brown sugar as well.
This is like a really decadent, delicious dessert bar.
And it just happens to be one of Brian's favorite things
'cause he loves brownies and chocolate chip cookies.
And we're gonna mix that in as well.
So this is looking kind of funky right now,
but it's gonna happen.
It's gonna get there.
I'm adding half a teaspoon of salt right now.
And two eggs will loosen everything up.
One of the secrets to a brownie that has that nice top
is to really mix the eggs in well,
so the sugar starts to dissolve,
but because these brookies have
a chocolate chip cookie coating,
it doesn't really matter as much.
So you don't have to mix, mix, mix, mix, mix.
You can just mix it until it's really well incorporated.
I also want one teaspoon of vanilla.
Now we're gonna mix this up.
It smells amazing.
You can see, we have this kind of like,
nice chocolate fudge consistency,
or like chocolate ganache almost.
Now we're gonna mix in half a cup of flour.
That's 60 grams.
This gets stirred in just gently until it's combined.
There and just like that,
we have an amazing chocolate brownie mixture.
The only thing our brownies are missing,
three quarters of a cup of chocolate chips,
more or less.
Just add that in.
They mix in really well.
Now we're gonna transfer this into our prepared pan.
This is the base layer so
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get it all out.
Don't waste any of that batter.
Use your spatula.
Get it all out.
I don't know why I'm using like a whisk to get things out.
It doesn't work.
We're just gonna spread this out to the edges
so it has a nice brownie base.
It might seem a little bit thin right now,
but trust and believe it'll all work out
'cause we're gonna add cookie dough
all over the top of this.
This is ready to set aside and now
we're gonna make our chocolate chip cookie dough.
Grab a mixer out, plug it in.
I'm gonna cream half a cup or 113 grams
of unsalted room, temperature, butter.
Okay.
To that butter, I'm gonna add 100 grams
or half a cup of granulated sugar
and one quarter cup of brown sugar.
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Pack it in.
This'll get mixed up for like three to four minutes
until it's light and fluffy
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and you can scrape the bowl down as needed.
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Okay.
Right now I'm adding half a teaspoon of salt
and I'm gonna scrape that bowl down
'cause you see lots of butter streaks here.
I see it like brown sugar deliciousness.
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Mix it up.
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Mm.
One teaspoon of vanilla,
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one egg.
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I see soupy realness, you see butter sugar stuff.
So we're gonna scrape that bowl down again.
You can see here, there's like a difference in the textures.
We want it all to be homogenous or the same.
I'm gonna add in half a teaspoon of baking powder,
quarter teaspoon of baking soda, sprinkling it in.
And we're gonna mix this up again
to get it really nice and distributed.
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Ooh!
That look so pretty.
Look at that.
That's nice and mixed up.
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Grab that scale.
I'm gonna add in 160 grams or one and a third cups.
Plop that back onto our mixer.
Just gonna scrape it down to begin the mix.
Mix on low until it's almost combined,
which means you'll see some streaks of flour here and there,
but we're gonna add the chocolate chips in next.
It'll fix everything.
Add those chocolate chips in one cup, your choice.
I'm using semi=sweet.
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Just like 10 seconds to mix it up and distribute everything
and you can just do one final scrape
because it looked totally fine on top,
but I found a huge packet of flour.
You can see there, just work it in with your spatula.
This recipe is super forgiving.
It's not like a cookie where
it kind of has to be really exact so it's okay.
It's gonna be okay. (laughs)
That's great.
Mixer's all done.
Thank you for your service.
The fun part is grabbing spoonfuls of the cookie dough
and just plopping them on top.
This isn't a complete coverage situation.
This is a giraffe pattern situation.
So you wanna have spoonfuls with a little bit
of the brownie showing through because in the bake,
the brownie will rise up and you'll have
that beautiful marbleized pattern.
Sometimes when you have recipes where things are divided,
you can kind of panic because you're like, oh,
I don't have enough to cover the complete top,
but this isn't even that situation.
Just get like a nice dappled texture throughout,
little islands of cookie dough in a chocolate sea.
We're gonna cover this up
with foil.
It bakes for 20 minutes at 350 covered.
Pop that foil off and bake an additional 20 minutes
and then I'll show you next steps.
I can't help myself.
We're gonna cover this with a couple more chocolate chips
just on the cookie dough part, so you look extra pretty.
It's an optional step, but I can't help myself.
These will be glossy and melty
when they come out of the oven
and really clean and chocolatey.
Last chip on.
Now we're gonna bake for 20 minutes, covered, 350.
In you go.
Out of the oven, cool enough to touch.
Look at that beautiful just modeled texture.
I love it.
Now,
easy cleanup.
Oh, the smell is so good.
Look at that.
Mm, that is some fudgy brownie cookie amazingness.
Mm!
Oh my Gosh.
I could eat that all day long.
(laughs) It's like, it's really good.
I hope you get a chance to make this recipe
and I'll see you in the next video.
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