Cosmic Brownie Cookies – Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

These cosmic brownie cookies are each cute and scrumptious! A fudgy ultra-chocolatey cookie is topped with ganache and sprinkled with rainbow chips.

A play on the enduring boxed cosmic brownies from the grocery retailer, these cookies are 100X extra scrumptious (and really straightforward to make!).

Fudgy Chocolate Cookie Dough

The cookies for these cosmic brownie cookies have intense chocolate taste and a deliciously wealthy and fudgy texture.

That is completed in two methods:

1. A tender and chewy ultra-chocolate cookie dough is enriched with a excessive ratio of brown sugar to granulated sugar AND entails a hefty quantity of cocoa powder to actually dial within the chocolate taste
2. The cookies get a slight press proper out of the oven (extra on this under).

For fail proof outcomes, right here’s a reminder that investing in a kitchen scale {aff. hyperlink} and weighing your dry substances will elevate your baking in so some ways and guarantee higher outcomes. All the time use the load measures given in a selected recipe versus changing the amount measures to weights with various on-line sources since that recipe has been examined with these particular weight quantities.

Why Press the Cookies After Baking?

These cookies will possible come out of the oven barely domed. That’s a great factor, as a result of we don’t need the cookies to unfold and flatten into skinny wafers. There can be no pleasure in that.

Urgent the cookies instantly out of the oven ensures an additional fudgy center AND creates a floor that’s simpler to frost and sprinkle.

We aren’t urgent the cookies to smithereens right here – simply frivolously flattening the domed prime into a fair plateau so the cookies type thick discs of chocolatey goodness.

Cosmic Brownie Frosting

The topping for these decadent chocolate cookies is an easy chocolate ganache. Ganache is only a fancy phrase for chocolate that’s mixed with sizzling cream and stirred till thick and shiny.

Chocolate ganache may be very, very wealthy. And really, excellent.

(Spoiler alert: it’s scrumptious on about 1,000,000 different issues, too, so when you have leftover ganache from this recipe, by no means concern – slather it on graham crackers or a banana or eat it by the spoonful.)

As soon as the cookies have cooled, unfold a dollop of chocolate ganache evenly throughout the highest, and earlier than the ganache units, sprinkle with rainbow sweet coated chips.

The place to Get Rainbow Sweet Coated Chips

Rainbow sweet coated chips are the traditional colourful garnish on cosmic brownies, and they’re so enjoyable and ideal for these cookies, too.

The rainbow chips can simply be discovered on-line. I get them right here {aff. hyperlink}. If those on the hyperlink aren’t out there, simply search “rainbow baking chips” on-line or on Amazon.

If you happen to don’t have rainbow chips available, listed here are a number of concepts for what to make use of as an alternative:

Please Attempt These Cookies Chilled

These cosmic brownie cookies are exceptionally scrumptious eaten whereas the chocolate ganache remains to be silky and only a bit drippy or as soon as the ganache and fudgy cookie heart has set a bit.

However they’re phenomenal saved within the fridge and eaten chilled. Like, simply belief me on this and promise you’ll expertise no less than certainly one of these cookies that method. SO GOOD.

Brian’s favourite grocery retailer deal with within the historical past of ever is a cosmic brownie. He has a hidden stash within the pantry. However even he admits that these cosmic brownie cookies are world’s higher than his storebought crush.

They’re enjoyable and festive for nearly any event and decadent and scrumptious sufficient to fill a need-it-now chocolate craving! I hope you’re keen on them…they’ve shortly turn into certainly one of my favourite cookies of all time!

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Cosmic Brownie Cookies

Yield: 36 to 36 cookies

Prep Time: 45 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time: 10 minutes minutes

Complete Time: 55 minutes minutes

• 1 cup (227 g) butter, softened to room temperature (not too tender!)
• 1 ½ cups (318 g) packed mild brown sugar
• ½ cup (106 g) granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ teaspoon desk salt
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 2 massive (100 g) eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 ¾ cups (390 g) all-purpose flour
• ⅔ cup (57 g) Dutch-process or pure, unsweetened cocoa powder

Topping:

• ½ cup heavy cream
• 1 ½ cups (255 g) semisweet chocolate chips
• Rainbow sweet coated mini chocolate chips (see observe)

• Preheat oven to 350 levels F (see observe!). Line half sheet pans with parchment paper; put aside.

• For the cookies, in a bowl with an electrical handheld mixer or within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream collectively the butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda till the combination is mild and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes.

• Add the eggs and vanilla. Combine till well-combined, scraping down the edges of the bowl as wanted.

• Add the flour and cocoa powder. Combine till evenly mixed and no dry streaks stay.

• Scoop the cookie dough into 2-tablespoon measurement balls and roll till clean (see observe for bigger cookies). Place a number of inches aside on the ready baking sheets.

• Bake for 10 to 11 minutes till the cookies are frivolously puffed and set across the edges however nonetheless tender within the heart.

• Non-compulsory: in my ovens, the cookies are barely domed on prime after baking. Instantly out of the oven, I exploit a flat-bottomed glass to softly press to a fair thickness. Do not smash them flat! Simply press the domed prime so the cookie remains to be thick however even throughout the highest. This makes frosting the cookies simpler (and prettier) and likewise offers the cookie an additional fudgy heart.

• Let the cookies cool for a number of minutes on the baking pans after which take away them to a cooling rack to chill utterly.

• For the ganache, place the chocolate chips in a medium bowl.

• Warmth the heavy cream till steaming and bubbles type across the edges. Pour the cream over the chocolate chips, urgent the chocolate chips to submerge them within the cream. Let sit for two to three minutes till the chocolate chips are melted after which stir or whisk till the combination is shiny and clean.

• Let the ganache cool for five to 10 minutes to thicken barely.

• Frost the cooled cookies with a dollop of ganache and sprinkle with rainbow sweet coated chips.

• Serve instantly whereas the ganache is tender or let the cookies sit at room temperature for an hour or so till the ganache units. The cookies are scrumptious served at room temperature and terribly scrumptious served chilled.

Rainbow Chips: these are the rainbow chips I exploit for the *cosmic brownie* vibe (if those on the hyperlink aren’t out there, simply search “rainbow baking chips” on-line). Mini M&Ms, flat colourful sprinkles, crips chocolate pearls or different colourful sprinkles can be utilized as an alternative choice to the rainbow chips.  
Baking Temperature: in case your oven bakes cool (or your cookies are inclined to flatten), improve the baking temperature to 375 levels F and bake for a couple of minute much less (control the cookies so that they don’t over bake). 
Dimension of Cookies: I exploit a #40 medium cookie scoop to portion out about 2 tablespoons of dough per cookie. These cookies will be made bigger with a #20 cookie scoop. Bake for 1 to 2 minutes longer for bigger cookies.
 

Creator: Mel

Course: Dessert

Delicacies: American

Methodology: Bake

Serving: 1 cookie, Energy: 189kcal, Carbohydrates: 24g, Protein: 2g, Fats: 10g, Saturated Fats: 6g, Ldl cholesterol: 28mg, Sodium: 125mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 15g

Recipe Supply: from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe