Chocolate Chip Surprise Cookies

By Lisa Dovichi

How do you transform a run-of-the-mill chocolate chip cookie into something that your friends will rave about for days? Shh, come closer. It's a secret.

You make them ginormous and give it a surprise chewy chocolatey brownie center (say that 10 times fast)!

Sounds like it should be complicated, right? Nuh uh. It isn't - just a little time intensive. Stick with me, my little chickadee, and I'll tell you how it's done.

You'll need:

• 1 box of your favorite chocolate brownie mix: prepared per box instructions with the extra egg for cake-like brownies and just under baked -- the brownie should be a little sticky.
• Your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe: prepared but NOT baked

Directions:

• Make cookie dough and put in fridge -- chilled dough works best
• Make brownies and let cool
• Preheat oven 350 degrees
• Mash up the pan of brownies
• Measure 1/3 cup cookie dough, ball it, cut in half and flatten each half into a disk.
• Measure 3 TBS sticky brownie crumbles and place on one cookie dough disk
• Take the other cookie dough disk and place it on top -- making a sandwich
• Seal the edges, place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper with an inch between each cookie.
• Bake at 350 for 18 minutes or until cookie is golden brown.
• Cool on wire rack (or not) and EAT!

So super delicious and worth all the time the preparation takes. I swear it.


Lisa lives in Livermore, CA with her husband and three children. She's the author/illustrator of the Sugar and Spice Cook-It-Yourself children books series (coming soon) and works from home as an artist and web designer. In her dwindling spare time she changes diapers, experiments with food, is a sucker for DIY projects, and watches bad movies on Monday night with her husband. To get more Lisa visit: www.meltingbeforeyoureyes.blogspot.com.