Cookie Butter Brownies

I’ve missed cooking. Summer keeps me out of the kitchen but sometimes a craving takes over and I find myself standing in front of a hot oven, begging a batch of goodness to hurry up and bake. Yesterday’s craving can all be blamed on my sweet friend Lauren who recently made a batch of brownies laced with Cookie Butter that I just couldn’t get over. Justin was begging for a batch to call his own, so off I went to Trader Joe’s. I have to admit that these Cookie Butter Brownies may be my best recipe of all time, so I should just go ahead and hang up my apron.

Cookie Butter Brownies

Ingredients

4 eggs

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

2 sticks (1 cup) melted butter

1 1/4 cup cocoa powder

2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup flour

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup chocolate chips

2 big spoonfuls of Cookie Butter

Method

Preheat oven to 300 degrees

grease an 8×8 or 9×9 pan 

In a stand mixer, mix eggs on medium speed

Once eggs are light yellow in color, add in both sugars and continue mixing at medium speed

Add melted butter, cocoa, salt, vanilla and flour

Mix until fully combined, making sure to scrape flour off of the sides of your bowl so that it can all be incorporated

Turn off mixer and fold in chocolate chips

Pour mix into pan and spread it evenly

drop small blobs of Cookie Butter all around the pan, gently blend in to the batter, using a fork

Bake 50 mins or until cooked through

Amazing.

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Recipe loosely adapted from this recipe, which was loosely adapted from Alton Brown’s. 

Want more Trader Joe’s goodness? Check out my ultimate Trader Joe’s Cheeseboard (featured on Real Simple and Food & Wine!) here.