This recipe for brownie cookies takes your box of brownie mix in a whole new direction. A few extra ingredients and you have brownie cookies!
I have a box of brownie mix in my cupboard At All Times for, you know, brownie emergencies.
I do have to say now that the Southern daughter and her pack of friends are all grown up and living in their own apartments with their own boxes of brownie mix (sob!) my brownie emergencies have slowed down a bit, to the point that my current box of brownie mix was nearing its expiration date.
Since I take expiration dates very seriously, action had to be taken. And it was, in the form of these brownie cookies, which combine brownie mix with cinnamon, coffee, walnuts and a few other things to make a cookie that is 75% brownie, 25% other stuff and 100% chocolate-filled scrumptious.
Here’s how you make brownie cookies!
It’s one of those easy one bowl recipe that you can whip up in about 30 minutes from turning on the oven to putting the cookies on the cooling rack.
Just combine a box of your favorite brownie mix, some butter, eggs, instant coffee, cinnamon and vanilla in your mixer.
Mix it all up, and then stir in some chocolate chips and some walnuts, and use your handy cookie scoop to put tablespoon sized scoops of dough on a cookie sheet.
12 minutes in the oven, and there you have them. Chocolate perfection.
Do try and keep people’s mitts off them for at least five minutes so they have a chance to firm up before you transfer them from the cookie sheet to a cooling rack. After that, it’s every person for themselves and their brownie cookie.
And it just occurred to me – if I Instagram a picture of two of these brownie cookies with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in between them, I bet I stand a good chance of at least some of my scattered children coming home for the holidays a few days early!
PrintBrownie Cookies
This recipe for brownie cookies takes your box of brownie mix in a whole new direction. A few extra ingredients and you have brownie cookies!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 36 minutes
- Total Time: 51 minutes
- Yield: About 30 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 box of brownie mix (family size or 13x9 pan size box)
- 1 stick (8 tablespoons) of butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon instant coffee powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup walnut pieces
Instructions
- Preheat over to 350. Line cookie sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper.
- Put brownie mix, melted butter, eggs, coffee powder, cinnamon and vanilla in a mixer and mix on medium speed until just blended.
- Stir in chocolate chips and nuts on slow speed until mixed in.
- Place tablespoon sized scoops of dough on the cookie sheet, leaving 2 inches in between cookies (they spread as they bake). Bake for 12 minutes.
- Cook for 5 minutes on cookie sheet, then transfer to cooling rack. Be very sure to eat one while they are still warm!
Sandy says
I’ve made this recipe twice now using a sugar free brownie mix and both times they came out great! Thank you for this wonderful recipe!
Sandy! Thanks so much for this sweet comment, and for letting us know that a sugar free mix works with this recipe – good info to have! :)
MJ says
Kate, the cookies turned out really, really well. This version is just as good or better than another recipe and much simpler. Thank you!
Oh, I’m so glad!! Thanks for letting me know. :)
La Torontoise says
Wow ladies, this seems to be the brownie mix keepers’site: -)
I also keep a few packages in my pantry as my 11 years old son just can not et enough during te week… It’s not that I love sugar: -)
Have a great weekend!
Yes, all brownie mix lovers unite here! You have a great weekend too.
MJ says
Kate, thank you for your super-quick response, you rock! I’m ready to bake! I’ll let you know how they turn out.
MJ says
Kate, quick question! What I have are two boxes of brownie mix, 450 g size, makes an 8 x 8 or 9 x 9 pan. Will these two boxes be equivalent to the family, or 13 x 9 size? I have never seen this size in Canada.
Hi MJ! The box mix I used was 18.3 ounces, which according to my handy Google ounces to grams calculator adds up to 519 grams. So looks like you need one box and a little more of the second one. I wish I could teleport a box of our US brownie mix up over the border to you in Canada!
MJ says
Kate, I think you’ve published this recipe just for me! Once in a while, it’s my turn to bring in baking to work, and I have to make something tonight for tomorrow morning. I was going to drag out that box of almost-expired brownie mix and do the usual thing, but this looks easy and sooooooooooo much better. Best of all, I won’t have to say, “Oh, it’s just a mix!” They’ll never need to know….. Thank you!
I’m so happy to hear this – it must have been fate!! And I think I need to start whatever thing you have going on with the baked goods at MY office! :)
Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says
Oh these brownie cookies are definitely calling my name, Kate! They look fantastic! I’ve never thought of using a boxed mix to make the cookies. Sounds like the perfect chocolate indulgence!
I love the fastest possible route to cookies – especially chocolate ones! :)
Martha in KS says
I too keep a box of brownie mix in my pantry for emergencies. I’ve found that “the dough boy’s” brownies are as good as anything I can make from scratch and so much faster. Can’t wait to try your cookies.
I knew there would be other folks out there who were always ready for brownie emergencies! :)