Vegan chocolate chip cookie dough brownies as if the picture doesn’t just scream “I am amazing!”
Sometimes there are no words necessary to explain the amazing-ness of a recipe and this is one of those times.
One bite and you will surely know the truth!
Stuffed with egg free ~ dairy free edible cookie dough
Actually it’s cookie dough mixed with buttercream!
Yep, it just keeps getting better because the whole thing is then topped with chocolate ganache.
You will see in the video tutorial that I decided to bake them in individual cupcake portions
But you can of course bake the entire batter in a 8″ X 8″ pan and go traditional style brownies in a sheet.
However I just felt so special with my own little cupcake-like cookie dough stuffed gem all for me!
I’ve also use the cookie dough buttercream as an icing for cupcakes!
Or for a super easy treat just roll the cookie dough filling in some cocoa powder for instant truffles!
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR HOW TO MAKE THE COOKIE DOUGH BROWNIES!
Notes for Success
Be sure to toast your flour and cool it to cold before making the raw cookie dough
It is no longer deemed “safe” to eat raw cookie dough anymore due to possible risks of contaminated raw flour.
But toasting the flour in a 350°F oven for 5-7 minutes will prevent any illness from occurring!
Cookie Dough Brownies
Ingredients
For the Brownie Batter:
- Granulated Sugar ¾ cup 150g
- Coconut Oil 4 tablespoons 60ml
- Natural or Dutch Process Cocoa Powder 1/3 cup 30g
- Hot Water 1/3 cup 80ml
- Ground Flax Seeds 3 Tablespoons 24g
- Hot Water 4 Tablespoons 60ml
- Vanilla Extract 1 teaspoon 5ml
- All Purpose Flour ½ cup + 3 Tablespoons 87g
- Salt ¼ teaspoon
- Baking Powder ¾ teaspoon
For the Cookie Dough:
- Vegan Butter 3 Tablespoons 42g
- Granulated Sugar ¼ cup 50g
- Light Brown Sugar ¼ cup 52g
- Plant Milk ¼ cup 60ml
- Vanilla Extract 1 teaspoon 5ml
- All Purpose Flour ¾ cup 94g
- Salt pinch
- Vegan Chocolate Chips ¼ cup 40g
For the Ganache:
- ½ cup Vegan Chocolate
- ¼ cup plant milk
- 1 cup Vegan Buttercream *optional
Instructions
For the brownie batter:
- Combine the ground flax and 4 Tbs hot water and let stand for 5 minutes to thicken.
- Combine the cocoa powder with the other measure of hot water (the 1/3 cup) and whisk smooth
- Add the melted coconut oil
- In a large mixing bowl combine the sugar, flax mixture, cocoa paste mixture and vanilla extract and whisk smooth
- Sift the flour with the salt and baking powder and add to the chocolate mixture, whisk smooth
- Portion into prepared cupcake tins filling half full and bake in a preheated 350°F oven for approximately 18 minutes
- Cool for about 3 minutes and then with a tablespoon measure press the center to create an indent~ cool the rest of the way.
For the cookie dough:
- Cream the vegan butter with both sugars until light and fluffy (this will take about 5 minutes on high speed)
- Add the vanilla extract and slowly drizzle in the plant milk while mixing on medium to high speed.
- Add the salt and flour and mix just until combined then add the chocolate chips.
- Add the buttercream last if using *optional
- Fill the indents of the cooled brownies with the cookie dough filling
- Dip the tops in ganache
- *To prepare the ganache chop the chocolate finely and add the boiling plant milk and whisk smooth, cool slightly before dipping the brownies
Hi Gretchen, I tried making a smaller batch of the cookie dough without buttercream to try it, and whenever I try raw cookie dough recipes I always find it tastes too much of flour compared to the raw cookie dough you would find in commercial products like ice cream or the premade cookie dough. Is that slightly floury taste just how it’s supposed to be or is there some secret to getting rid of that? Thanks in advance any info and thank you for sharing your amazing recipes!
HI Brian, did you try this recipe? I have a much lower ratio of flour to butter/sugar here so mine tends to be very “loose” unlike “real” cookie dough that would be baked. I suppose I also took what you are saying into consideration and why I created the recipe this way. Give it a try – but if you still find it to be too “floury” you can always switch out the flour to an non wheat flour (since we wont be baking this it is very forgiving)
Great bake, Gretchen! Love the recipe and thank you for the food concerns at the end. Pretty bad when you really have to be extra safe conscious when making something from scratch and so delicious such as cookie dough. Though, I suppose in this time we live if we really start to look at everything we eat, and all the dangers we know are out there and all the false dangers they tell us about to scare us away from the healthy (better than commercial) foods, we would starve avoiding everything. So let the cookies fly and eat what you make. Thank you again as always for the tasty food and the brain food…
Hi. I would love to make the brownie with cookie dough . How do I get the written recipe. Thanks so much!