Craving a soft, fudgy cookie dotted with chocolate chips? This recipe is made with cocoa powder, not melted chocolate, making these super quick to whip up! Get your chocolate fix and satisfy your sweet tooth!
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Soft, fudgy, and easy to make!
- Quicker to make than a pan of brownies!
- Freezes well!
Ingredient Notes and Substitutions
- Cocoa - any cocoa powder will work except Hershey's. Hershey's cocoa leaves an acrid flavor and aftertaste.
- Shortening - you can substitute solid coconut oil for the shortening, but you will need to add an additional ¼ cup of flour.
- Chocolate Chips - you can use peanut butter chips, mint chips, or mini M'n'M's instead!
Step-by-Step Recipe Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare baking sheets by lining them with parchment paper or spraying them with non-stick cooking spray.
- Cream the brown sugar and shortening well.
- Mix in the water, vanilla, and eggs.
- Mix in the salt, baking soda, cocoa powder, and flour.
- Mix in the chocolate chips.
- This is a pretty sticky cookie dough. You're going to be tempted to add a bunch more flour but don't!
- Scoop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.
- Don't overbake these cookies, or they won't be fudgy.
Recipe FAQs and Expert Tips
When these are done, the tops look puffy and slightly undercooked.
These are good for 2-3 days.
Put the completely cooled cookies in a gallon-size ziploc bag or in an airtight container.
Yes! After the cookies are completely cool, pack them in an air-tight container between layers of wax paper before popping them in the freezer. Thaw out at room temperature.
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Chewy Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup Shortening See notes for substitution
- 1 ½ cup Brown Sugar
- 1 tbs Water
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 2 Eggs
- ¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ⅓ cup Cocoa
- 1 ½ cup Flour
- 1 ½ cup Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a couple of baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray or line them with parchment paper.
- In a mixing bowl, cream the shortening and brown sugar.
- Mix in the water, vanilla, and eggs.
- Add the baking soda, salt, and cocoa and mix well.
- Stir in the flour and chocolate chips. This cookie dough is a pretty moist and sticky dough.
- Scoop by heaping tablespoonfuls onto prepared baking sheets a couple of inches apart.
- Bake for about 8 minutes. These cookies will appear slightly undercooked when they are done.
- Remove from your oven and let them cool on the baking sheet for at least 5 minutes before moving them to a cooling rack.
- Cool completely and store in an airtight container.
Notes
- You can substitute solid coconut oil for the shortening. You will need to add an additional ¼ cup of flour if you do.
Garry
Hi,
I was wondering if there is a reason that shortening is used here,, or could we use butter ? many thanks,
Mindee
You could use butter however these are the differences I notice. Shortening is was makes these cookies moist and dense.. Butter because it's melting point is so much lower, absorbs into the flour much more so than shortening and the cookies lose the moisture and denseness. Butter, once again due to the low melting point, causes the cookies to spread a lot unless you add more flour to the batter which then you lose the brownie texture completely and the flavor becomes much less chocolatey.
maryanne
Chocolate chip brownie cookies?? My husband is going to LOVE these!!
Jacqueline Meldrum
Oh my yes please! Those look just perfect!
Mindy Fewless
Brownies and cookies are my 2 favorite things!! these were a perfect match made in heaven!! so chewy and chocolately!!
Karen March
Absolutely delicious! This is my new favorite cookie recipe☺️
Alejandra
I’m drooling these look so good! I’m going to make a double batch because I know how quickly these are going to be eaten!
Amanda Dixon
These look delicious! I love a chewy chocolate cookie, so I can't think of a more perfect cookie for me.
KiMee Nicole Price
These are so adictive!