Brookies Cookies (The OG Chocolate Chip Cookie Bronados)

What is a Chocolate Chip Cookie Bronado? Also considered brookie cookies, these are sturdy, cut-out style chocolate chip cookies filled with brownie batter, sliced, and baked to swirled perfection.

Cookie Bronado (n):
[koo k-ee broh-ney-doh]

1. a brookie-style cookie.
2. a small disc of swirled, tornado-like composition, comprised of an exemplary amount of cookie dough and brownie batter. When conjoined and baked, these two ingredients give the sweet disc powers capable of altering someones face, mood, and general outlook on life.
3. my fifth and final contribution to Christmas Cookie Week 2014.

Yes indeed folks, today is the final day of cookie madness week (phew), and I saved my favorite original recipe for last, the Chocolate Chip Cookie Bronado!

JUST TAKE ME TO THE BROOKIES COOKIES ALREADY!

If you’d rather skip my (pretty darn helpful) tips and tricks, essential cooking info, and similar recipe ideas – and get straight to this deliciously easy chocolate chip cookie recipe, just scroll right on down to the bottom of the page where you can find the printable recipe card!

I have to give every ounce of credit to my husband on this one.

Right down to the very OG (and impossible to SEO) name.

While driving home from running errands last week, out of the blue, he requested these very sinful treats, brownies rolled in cookie.

I, of course, replied, with full bravado…

Every chocolate chip cookie I’ve ever made has been drop style, and I assumed that a cut out style type would just contain more flour, but I was shaky on the ratio, so I took to Pinterest and began research on a roll out chocolate chip cookie dough recipe.

Gotta love Pinterest, it’s never let me down.

It immediately directed me to this recipe from the SugarBakers Cookie Cutter Cookbook (a book that is now on my wishlist, FYI), via SweetSugarBelle.com, and I was all about it. I thickened up some brownie batter with a little extra flour, and I was set to make my sweetie some brookies cookies!

ProTip: Follow. The. Recipe.

Don’t be stupid like me and decide to use an open bag of regular-sized chocolate chips instead of the minis that these cookies demand.

If you use large chips, you’re gonna have a bad time.

First of all, the dough won’t be a consistent thickness, and the “jelly roll” is much harder to perfect with those things protruding everywhere.

And this is a slice and bake recipe. Have you ever tried to cut through cold chocolate chips?

It’s sort of like cutting through steak with a spoon.

You know. You’ll get through it eventually, but it’s not gonna be pretty.

Some of them sliced alright, but for the most part, my knife would knock the chips out and the cookie dough would fall out of it’s circle. Which is why some of them look a bit like Sloth from The Goonies.

All the parts are there, they’re just a tad bit misshapen.

Luckily, I managed and made these work. They were good enough for Mr. Crumby, for sure!

Basically, what you’re looking at are little pieces of heaven. Perfect chocolate chip cookies, swirled around thick, fudgy brownie.

It’s a brownie tornado cookie. Brookies cookies.

No. It’s so much more than that. It’s a bronado.

Thanks to their moniker, from start to finish, all I could think about while making these crazy things was Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother (played by the amazing Neil Patrick Harris), and how he would feel about them.

If you’ve ever watched the show, then you know about Barney and his Bro Code, and how throughout nine seasons, he was pretty much the godfather of being a “Bro.”

So, here’s my dear hubby, being creative and original right down to the naming of these things; Imagine my surprise when, while keywording these cookies for this post, I found out that Bronado is actually a word.

An Urban Dictionary word, but a word in the universe, nonetheless. It honestly sounds like a word Barney could have coined (he at least inspired it), but was beaten to it by a couple of potty-mouthed guys in Brooklyn in 2010 who don’t know the difference between a tornado and a downburst.

Whatever. Credit where credit is due.

But you can eat these bronados. And you should. Just sayin’.

CHALLENGE COMPLETED.

(But next time…mini chocolate chips.)

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