- If you love brownies,
then boy have I got the cookie for you!
Say hello to my brownie cookie.
Fudgy, delicious chocolate cookies
that are beyond easy to make too.
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 cookies will be ready before you know it.
So let's get started.
First off, let's melt one half of a cup
or 113 grams of unsalted butter.
And you want it nice and warm
because we're gonna bloom the cocoa powder.
Blooming cocoa powder is just gonna release more
of the flavor and give you an even fudgier brownie cookie.
So that's one half of a cup cocoa powder.
And normally I would do this by hand,
but today, it's a special day, I am using my hand mixer.
I just got one.
Well, Brian got me one.
For the first time in years.
I've broken several of them and I thought I was cursed.
So let's see how this goes.
So mix that in.
We wanna have like a nice fudgy slurry.
After that's mixed in,
we're gonna add one tablespoon or 15 mL
of warm or hot coffee, if you have it.
In you go, carefully, please.
Okay, mix that in.
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Now we're gonna add in one egg
and here's why I'm using the electric mixer today.
It's not just for the novelty.
We wanna beat the egg, the butter
and the sugars really well
because if we play our cards right,
we'll get that nice crackly brownie top,
but let's see how it goes.
Not making any promises,
One egg.
To the solution, I'm gonna add one half of a cup
of packed, light brown sugar.
Alls of a sudden,
this bowl's looking too small, just saying.
Am I ambidextrous?
No.
And then one half of a cup or 100 grams of white sugar.
Okay now, just mix and mix and mix.
Okay, I was just having fun at that point.
So smooth this all down here.
I'm gonna set this aside.
I've been completely tripping
because this should've been a really big bowl.
What was I thinking?
Now we're gonna have a large bowl.
I'm just gonna sift in the flour and stuff.
To my large bowl, I'm adding 80 grams
or two thirds of a cup of just all-purpose flour.
Really don't wanna use too much flour in this cookie.
It is a fudgy, amazing bit of wonderfulness,
which means there's not that much flour.
Half a teaspoon of salt,
half a teaspoon of baking powder
for a little bit of leavening.
You don't have to sift this up, but I cannot stop.
Whisk it up.
Done with the scale.
So now you should be adding the dry to the wet,
but doing the opposite doesn't make much of a difference,
by the way.
Add the two mixtures together.
I love brownie cookies
because they give you the semblance of portion control.
If you make my brownie recipe,
which is great, you can click up here for that.
You're eating like massive pieces of brownie
and you're like, I won't stop.
Never gonna stop, which is great.
But in a brownie cookie,
you can just like have a cookie, walk away,
have another cookie, walk back.
I'm gonna mix this until almost combined.
That's almost combined.
Now the last bit is to fold in the chocolate chips.
I have half a cup of chocolate chips in,
and I'm just gonna dump them in
and use my spatula to fold them in.
And while I do that,
any last bits of flour
that have not been incorporated will be incorporated.
If you do not like coffee,
like, you're like, no coffee in my house, that's fine.
You can totally skip that.
Add a tablespoon of vanilla if you want
or just like some water would be fine too.
Okay, that's good.
Look at this amazing mixture.
Now we're gonna cover it up, chill for 30 minutes
and when we come back,
I'll show you how to scoop it out and bake it up.
Once your dough's chilled,
it's time to scoop it out and bake it up.
So I like to use a triggered ice cream scooper.
It's really easy,
but you can just use a spoon or whatever you'd like,
and then you can give it a rough roll.
Just roll-a, roll-a, roll-a, and it's ready to go.
Tamp it down just a bit into like a disc shape.
You don't wanna have a huge ball
because that inside will take forever to bake.
It's always nice to give cookies
a little bit of room to breathe
so don't crowd them out too much.
My first batch is ready for the oven.
That's a 350 for about eight minutes.
They are not gonna be like fully baked and hardened.
They will continue to set after you take them out.
You just wanna see that they're like mostly baked.
Into the oven you go.
So ready to take a bite of this cookie.
But before I do, if you like this recipe,
check out my chocolate playlist, tons of chocolate videos,
brownies, cakes, the works.
Alright, now it's time for a bite.
So good, rich, fudgy, tons of chocolate flavor.
What more could you ask for?
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