Hello. Two of my favorite things, in one. Does life get any better?
Yesterday the baking bug hit. Love when that happens on Sundays :). Who doesn’t like treats for the week? Well, I certainly do…but I had one thing to consider. We leave for the week on Tuesday. So I needed to bake something that wouldn’t last us more than three days.
Enter cookie dough brownies, and the freezer :).
I’ve seen the idea all over the Pinterest. Brownies, from a box or scratch, topped with cookies. You really can’t mess it up. But, because we were being so indulgent here, I took the opportunity to really healthify our treat. And lemme tell ya, we weren’t complaining.
We used half this batch of brownies (but you can use all) to make a small portion of this delicious treat
Cookie Dough Brownies
Brownie Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup of cocoa powder
- 1/2 + 2 tablespoons of boiling water
- 2 ounces of unsweetened chocolate, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons of unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup + of applesauce (add a tablespoon or two if needed)
- 2 flax seed eggs (1 tablespoon of ground flax, 3 tablespoons of water per flax egg)
- 2 egg whites
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
- 2 cups of sugar
- 1 cup of All purpose flour
- 3/4 cup of Whole Wheat flour
- A large dash of salt
Brownie Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and begin boiling water
- Put cocoa in large mixing bowl, and add the boiling water directly
- Add the chocolate, and whisk until smooth
- Whisk in the applesauce and butter
- Add the flax eggs, egg whites and vanilla
- Fold in the flour and sugar until completely incorporated
- Pour into an 8×8, greased pan.
- Bake for 25-35 minutes, depending on doneness.
I let the brownies cool completely, for a few hours.
Once the brownies are done, you just need to add the cookie dough!
Many recipes call for a peanut butter cookie dough on top, which requires no baking, just setting. But I ultimately used some left over zucchini chocolate chip cookie dough that I had frozen and added Sundrops (or MnM’s) to the dough. I baked the cookie dough on top for about 5-7 minutes (way undercooked)…let cool completely, then let set in the fridge for about an hour. I imagine any cookie dough could really work — but this was a healthy cookie dough and like I mentioned before, I’m all about making this as healthy as possible since by nature it is SO indulgent.
These things were AWESOME. And I can’t wait to have some more tonight :).
Enjoy!
Quesiton of the night: Cookie DOUGH or cookie?
Cookie dough most of the time, I’m sorry…
Yum! I’m all over the cookie 🙂
SO good!
cookie dough…and then the COOKIE! i made mint chocolate chip cookies this weekend. i can’t resist sneaking a few bites of the dough. it’s so good! it’s like i can’t help myself.
Yum that looks so good.
However I do prefer having a cookie to cookie dough
IT is so good! 🙂
Seriously gonna need you to ship me a batch! Looks so good right now!
LOL they are SO good!
Back in college we had an industrial mixer in our kitchen and would make dough in 25 lb batches … so good, yet so bad. As a result it is one thing I am always wary of since losing that weight. Still love cookie dough, but no more than 1 teaspoon per batch 🙂
Oh my gosh — 25 lb batches. This is like heaven.
Girl, your metabolism and ability to eat sugary things without wreaking havoc on your body seriously makes me envious. Oh, and cookies for sure!
It’s why I run lol 😉
Nice. I wish running would help me out in that area. 🙂
Oh, that looks delish!
It was so good 🙂
I’m drooling. And there’s a baking competition next week at work. GUESS WHO’S WINNING?!
LOL let me know if you bake them!
YUM! Cookie dough all the way.
For sure 🙂
Enjoy! I can’t remember the last time I had a cookie or dough for that matter. It’s almost swimsuit season after all!
LOL — I would probably have KILLER abs if I didn’t like sweets so much. but for the time being, I’m fine having my rockin’ abs under a small layer of chocolate 🙂
Haha, that’s ok, my 6 pack is hiding under a layer of six pack of Guinness.
This recipe looks awesome, especially for the holidays! I might give it a try this week to impress Dan’s family haha. Thanks for sharing Ashley 🙂
It’s a great one! 🙂
Oh. My. Ga. That’s all I can say.
Omg that looks sooo good. The baking but but me this week too. Pinterest made it worse!