Chipster-Topped Brownies
Do you remember the TV ads for Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups that involved an accidental collision of two people, one getting chocolate in the other’s peanut butter and vice-versa, only to discover the deliciousness of chocolate and peanut butter together?
The Chipster-Topped Brownies made for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie baking project could have made for a fun YouTube video spoof of two bakers accidentally mixing brownie and cookie dough batter to create a new taste sensation, but I didn’t have the time to get that creative. I did make the brownie cookies and unfortunately my taste sensation turned out a bit dry. I blame it on over baking them rather than the recipe after reading other bakers rave about the gooey brownie layer. I made half a recipe and really should have cut the baking time down. It was tricky to figure out what the brownies were doing underneath the crust of cookie dough and somehow I forgot the most important brownie making rule – always under bake them!
I need to give this recipe another test before writing it off, but I am incline to just make my favorite chocolate chunk cookies and my favorite brownies and serve them individually so each can shine in its own spotlight. If you can’t decide between making chocolate chip cookies or brownies, you should give this recipe for Chipster-Topped Brownies a try; just remember to under bake them! Thanks Beth for picking this week’s recipe. You can find it posted on her blog, Supplicious.
Over 350 baking bloggers are baking our way thorough Dorie Greenspan’s book, Baking: From My Home to Yours . 75 recipes completed 146 to go!
All photos by David Peterman unless otherwise noted
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May 26th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Sorry you weren’t a huge fan – funny, you might be the only one I’ve heard from who *over* baked these! But I get where you’re coming from – go with your favorite of each and have them separately. Together they look pretty fantastic though!
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May 26th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Your chipsters look great. Too bad about the overbaking. I prefer my choc cookies and brownies separate too.
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May 26th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I’m with you: I like my cookies and brownies to star in their own shows and not have to share the limelight. I would have preferred over baked to the undercooked ooze I had.
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May 26th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
It’s funny, I thought yours looked so perfect and neat, then I saw the word “overbaked.” It was really hard to get the consistency right on these. Thanks for linking your favorite brownie and chocolate chip cookie recipes.
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May 27th, 2009 at 4:59 am
nice layering! but i’m with you…separate is better in my books (unless we are talking chocolate and PB!).
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May 27th, 2009 at 5:14 am
They look like perfect little squares of goodness. I’m sorry it turned out a bit on the dry side for you. Everyone else seemed to have underbaked issues. At least you tried, right?
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May 27th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Great looking brownies, but the favorite part this week is remembering that silly commercial and seeing that running count down at the bottom of your post…how fun is that running count! Great job on the brownie/cookie/chipster!
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May 27th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Did you ever see that commercial with a man a a women walking towards eachother, one eating a chocolate bar and the other licking his finger off from a dip in the pb jar? …they fell in love when crashed into eachother and created Reese’s peanut butter cups? LOL
No need really, for that spoof… to sell me on those great looking squares of yours! They don’t get more perfect than that, I don’t think… the layers are very, very nice!
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May 27th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Gorgeous, perfect brownies, Carol. WOW.
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May 28th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Well, I never would have known they were dry. They look perfect to me!
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May 28th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Yeah, I like mine separate too. But these were really good. And yours look just right.
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May 31st, 2009 at 7:58 am
Yours look just beautiful. And delicious. And you can always underbake them next time!
Nice job.
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June 10th, 2009 at 7:33 am
You are amazing!
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