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Brookies (Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies)

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Have you ever had a brookie? It’s a tempting combination of chewy chocolate chip cookies and fudge brownies! WHAT EXACTLY IS A BROOKIE? The components are simple enough—chocolate chip cookie dough mashed together with brownie batter to make a hybrid cookie/brownie baked treat. You usually find them in one of three forms:  baked into bars like brownies, baked in mini muffin cups, or pressed together into cookies, as I’ve done here. HOW TO MAKE A BROOKIE For my version, I wanted to ensure that the cookie and brownie portions both maintained their integrity without one becoming too much like the other. The cookie portion remains classic and chewy while the brownie portion is fudgy and not cakey. ⇆ Chilling the dough for these may seem fussy, but both doughs are pretty soft and chilling helps make both doughs easier to work with; otherwise things can get messy, fast. They will also maintain their shape better once they are baked, yielding that ideal contrast of cookie-brownie bliss. I trie