Brownie Cookies Baked Until the Edges Set

Brownie Cookies Baked Until the Edges Set keeps the shopping list focused on all-purpose flour, cocoa powder — Dutch processed, and kosher salt. It serves 12 cookies.

Count on 20 minutes of prep, 15 minutes of cooking, about 35 minutes from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder — Dutch processed
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• ¼ teaspoon baking powder
• 8 oz semi-sweet baking chocolate — melted but not hot
• ¾ cup light brown sugar — packed
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• ¼ cup unsalted butter — softened
• 2 large eggs
• 1 large egg yolk
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips 60-63%
• Maldon Salt — optional

How the cooking goes

1. Warm the oven to 350°F conventional. Line two sheet pans with baking paper or silicone mats.
2. Beat together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Keep it to one side.
3. In the bowl of a electric mixer, cream butter and both sugars until light and fluffy.
4. Put the eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition and scraping down the bowl as needed. Add the vanilla with the egg yolk.
5. Tip in all the melted chocolate at once and beat well until fully combined and glossy.
6. Reduce the mixer to low and gradually add the dry ingredients, mixing until just incorporated.
7. Add the chocolate chips then mix until evenly distributed.
8. Use a cookie scoop to portion the dough onto the prepared sheet pans. If the dough looks more like batter, the melted chocolate was too warm: refrigerate it for 15 minutes before scooping. Sprinkle with flaky sea salt.
9. Oven-bake for 13 to 15 minutes, until the outsides are set, the tops are cracked, and the centers no longer look raw. Cool on the pan for 5 minutes, then move it onto a wire rack.

After it comes off the heat

Cool the sheet on a rack before the pieces are stacked. A covered tin keeps them for a few days.

If you want another plate from Cookies, open Cowboy Cookie with a Soft Middle and Double Chocolate Peppermint Kiss Cookies with a Soft Middle.