Brookies

desserts
Total: 40 min. | Active: 30 min.
vegan, lactose-free

If you've been looking for a simple recipe for soft, lactose-free chocolate cookies that are ready in just 30 minutes, then you've come to the right place. These "brookies" (cookies that look and taste like brownies) are pure indulgence, guaranteeing an explosion of flavour and a sweet treat for the taste buds. The combination of the intense chocolatey taste and the soft texture of a brownie results in the perfect cookie – a dream for chocolate lovers everywhere.

Recipe by:
Sarah - Fragola & Limone

Ingredients

for 12 pieces

Melt the chocolate
120 g dark chocolate, finely chopped
½ dl sunflower oil
Dough
140 g sugar
¾ dl water, boiling
130 g white flour
25 g cocoa powder
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp bourbon vanilla powder, as desired
1 pinch salt

How it's done

Melt the chocolate

Place the chocolate and oil in a thin-sided bowl and suspend over a gently simmering bain-marie, ensuring that the bowl does not touch the water. Melt the chocolate, stir until smooth.

Dough

Place the sugar in a bowl, pour in the water, mix until the sugar has dissolved, pour into the chocolate while stirring. Mix the flour with all the other ingredients up to and including the salt, add to the chocolate mixture, mix. Leave to stand for approx. 5 mins.

Shape

Using a medium-sized ice cream scoop, shape the dough into 12 half-balls and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper, leaving plenty of space between each cookie.

Bake

Approx. 10 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 180 °C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool for approx. 10 mins., slide onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.

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