Praline Brookies

What is a Brookie?

Brookies are brownie cookies, where brownies are topped with cookie doughs to make one delicious treat with two distinct layers. Our easy brookie recipe uses both a brownie mix, and refrigerated cookie dough, with an easy praline mixture in between, bringing brookies up another notch in the gooey, indulgent bars you can’t resist scale. They are better together than either a plain brownie or a chocolate chip cookie could ever be, as you get to enjoy both sweets in one delicious delicacy. And because they are more special than plain brownies or chocolate chip cookies—they literally are perfect for any occasion from snacking to a holiday dessert.
When you start with your favorite brownie mix, make a quick homemade praline layer, and top it off with our refrigerated cookie dough, it only takes 20 minutes to get them into the oven, rather than having to make each layer from scratch. It’s a quick way to have a very special and indulgent treat without a lot of work!

How to Make Brookies

Once you know how to make brookies, and just how easy it is, you’ll want to make these delicious treats for your family and friends often. For the full directions, see the recipe, but are the basic directions for how the brownie cookie bars are put together:
Make and Partially Bake the Brownies: Use your favorite brownie mix, the vegetable oil, water, and eggs to make the brownie batter. Partially bake the brownies so that they can hold the next layers on top of them.

Make the Simple Praline Filling: Butter, two kinds of sugar, pecans and vanilla are cooked on the stove top while the brownies are baking. This yummy concoction gets poured over the partially baked brownies.

Top with Cookie Dough: Slices of unbaked cookie dough is placed on top of the praline filling. During baking, the cookie dough will spread to cover the filling and become the top layer of the bars.

Serve It Your Way: You can serve the squares warm with ice cream, for an amazing dessert or let the squares cool completely, so they are an easy treat you can eat with your hands.

Decadent Brownie Cookie Ingredients

Brookie bars get their amazing flavor and textures from common ingredient that form a brownie layer, a praline filing and a cookie layer:
Fudge Brownie Mix: The first time-saver to making these brownie cookies! One mix cuts down on the number of ingredients you need to purchase or measure, to make the brownie layer.

Vegetable Oil, Water and Eggs: The ingredients you need to make a chocolatey, fudgy brownie base layer.

Butter: Adds richness and a gooeyness factor to the praline layer that makes these bars even more special.

Milk: Adds moisture and creaminess to the praline mixture, for a caramel-like flavor.

Granulated and Brown Sugars: Both sugars are added to give the praline layer the right balance of sweetness and caramel color to the classic praline candy flavor.

Vanilla: Added to the pecan mixture to enhance the flavors of the other filling ingredients.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough: The second time-saver in making these 3-layer bars so easy! Slices of the dough are strategically placed on top of the praline mixture so that they will bake together in the oven to form the cookie layer.