Brownie-Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies + Baking Giveaway!

Last week’s visit to the Nestlé test kitchens definitely put me in the mood to bake cookies. I have been looking forward all week to share these with you, I was so pleased with how they came out. For these Brownie-Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies, I combined two on-the-package Nestlé recipes – Mini Morsels Cookies and Dark Chocolate Brownies – to create one pretty cool-looking cookie that tastes, if I may say, even better than the sum of its parts.

If the idea of swirling brownie batter into cookie dough sounds to you like something Jenny from Picky Palate might have come up with, you’re right! My supremely creative friend Jenny is the reigning queen of combining treats to make exciting new ones (her Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies are all over the food blogs right now). When I got it in my head that I wanted to combine brownies and cookies I looked to the technique she shared several years ago that ensured big bold swirls without “muddying” the dough. It worked like an absolute charm.

Read on to learn the easy technique for swirling brownie batter into cookie dough…plus a fabulous baking giveaway from Nestlé!

Transfer the cookie dough to a baking pan
To get nice, clean brownie swirls into your chocolate chip cookie dough, you first transfer your cookie dough to a baking pan.

Spread the dough out across the pan
Spread out the dough into a thin layer. You don’t have to fill up the pan or anything. All you’re doing here is spreading out the dough to make it easier to scoop out the cookies – with brownie swirls – later.

Drizzle on the brownie batter
Drizzle about a half a cup of brownie batter over the cookie dough. Yes, you’ll have extra brownie batter. No, this isn’t a problem in the least (you’ll bake the rest in a separate pan).

Give the brownie batter a little swirl with the cookie dough

Go in with a toothpick and gently swirl the brownie batter into the dough. Don’t go too crazy with the swirling – the less combining you do the more distinctly the swirls will appear.

Scoop out the cookies!

Lastly, scoop out your cookies. Jenny recommends using a cookie scoop. Since this is the one kitchen utensil I don’t happen to own I used a regular ice cream scoop and it worked just fine. Do your best to keep the brownie batter on top, that way your swirls will appear on the top surface of the cookie rather than on the bottom (as I learned). I scooped out golf ball-sized amounts of dough.

Brownie-Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies

And there they are! They kind of remind me of the planet earth. 🙂 You can taste the difference between the brownie and chocolate chip cookie parts, but the entire treat has the chewy-crisp consistency of a cookie. There’s enough brownie batter leftover for a 9″x9″ pan of incredible dark chocolate brownies. This is the recipe that keeps on giving!

And speaking of giving…

Win a Nestle Baking Gift Basket!Nestlé Baking Gift Basket GIVEAWAY! [THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED]

The folks at Nestlé were kind enough to offer Cooking On the Side readers the chance to win a Nestlé Baking Gift Basket. It includes:

  • A sampling of all of the Nestlé Toll House morsels
  • Nestlé Toll House Baking Cocoa
  • Nestlé Carnation milks
  • Libby’s Pumpkin
  • Wonka bars
  • An apron

Here are four ways to enter, you can do any or all of them (please leave separate comments for each entry):

  • Leave a comment on this post sharing your hands down, all time favorite cookie.
  • “Like” Cooking on the Side on Facebook
  • Subscribe to free updates from Cooking On the Side via e-mail or RSS
  • Follow me @paninikathy on Twitter

The giveaway will close on Monday, April 4, 2011 at noon PDT [THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED]. I will use random.org to select one winner to receive the gift basket and announce the winner in this post. Apologies to my international readers, due to shipping constraints the prize can only be shipped to U.S. addresses.

**UPDATED 4/5/2011 – Congrats to the winner!

Congrats to entry #94 - Dara!

Congratulations to entry #94 – Dara from Cookin’ Canuck!

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  4. mendy wrote:

    I’ll have to say my favorite cookies are chocolate chips!

    Posted 4.3.11 Reply
  5. Theresa wrote:

    I just made some homemade oreo’s that were incredible. But it’s hard to be old fashioned chocolate cookies with some butterscotch bits thrown in for good measure. 🙂

    Posted 4.3.11 Reply
  6. Ashlee wrote:

    My all-time favorite cookies are oatmeal with butterscotch chips, YUM!

    Posted 4.3.11 Reply
  7. Caren wrote:

    Chocolate Chip cookies- the big ones!

    Posted 4.3.11 Reply
  8. grace wrote:

    i love me some oatmeal scotchies with coconut!

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  9. cara wrote:

    Chocolate Chip cookies!

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    my all time fav cookie is my moms peanut butter cookies!

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  16. Sarah wrote:

    My Grammy’s chocolate chip cookies. Yum!

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  17. Jenny Loveridge wrote:

    I have to admit I’m fond of magic bars, so easy and so rich!

    Posted 4.4.11 Reply
  18. My favorite cookie recipe is regular old chocolate chip cookies!

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  20. Julie wrote:

    Just wanted to say those cookies look absolutely divine!

    Posted 4.5.11 Reply