The recipe this week is a sort of "twofer" as you get two desserts all in one, three if you put ice cream on it! The bottom layer is a chocolately brownie and the top layer is a chocolate chip cookie. This week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, from the cookbook Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan is Chipster-Topped Brownies, can be found on pages 94-95, and was chosen by Beth of Supplicious. If you would like to try the recipe before buying the book, click on Beth's site above and she will have it posted today.
First you assemble the brownie mixture and place it in the pan, wash up all the mixer parts, make the chocolate chip cookie dough and spread it over the brownie layer, and then put the entire pan in the oven for a little less than an hour and out comes a nicely browned chocolate chip cookie topping over a moist and chewy brownie layer.
Very easy actually. The "wow" impact from the guys was well worth the effort and stress of worrying if both layers would be done at the same time, etc. They were, so I am counting this recipe as a definite keeper.
Where usually I have one tester, sometimes, two, maybe three very occasionally, today there are FIVE of them. Alex, Jacob, Adam, Matt and Colin (front then back) 16 year old boys and their friends are more than willing to test anything that has the words "chocolate cookie/brownie" in it.
Unanimously, it was a hit, hands down, 100% approval. The only surprising voice in the entire crowd was Mark's, whose comment was "This is very very rich, I think I can only have one piece of this at a time." The man who loves desserts limited himself to just one piece. You heard it here.
Next week's recipe was chosen by Tracey of Tracey's Culinary Adventures is Cinnamon Squares, and can be found on pages 210-211.
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