Sheet Pan Brookies

Why select between brownies and cookies when you possibly can have each? Critically, if you end up craving a fudgy brownie and a few heat chocolate chip cookies, then you definately want these brookies in your life! And, making them in a sheet pan ensures they’re able to serve a crowd.

For extra scrumptious desserts, strive my Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies and the Best Brownie Recipe Ever.

Why My Recipe

My signature brownie and chocolate chip cookie recipes mixed to create the right brookie!
This sheet pan model makes for straightforward serving and feeds a crowd!

A square of brookies being lifted from the sheet pan by a spatula.

Making these brookies in a sheet pan is the best way to go, belief me. Once I consider this sort of dessert, it’s one that’s meant to be shared with a crowd at a celebration or potluck or any get collectively. So, sheet pan it’s! Making them within the sheet plan additionally offers the right ratio of decadent brownie and chocolate chip cookie, so one doesn’t overwhelm the opposite. It wasn’t fairly so simple as combining my two signature recipes, however a number of little changes convey the identical superb leads to one scrumptious little cookie bar.

Ingredient Notes

An overhead view of the ingredients needed to make sheet pan brookies.

Butter: We use salted right here for comfort. If you’re utilizing unsalted, add a further pinch of salt because it does improve the flavour of chocolate.
Granulated Sugar: Ensures the traditional crackly prime on the brownies.
Eggs: Use grade AA giant eggs at room temperature for straightforward mixing.
Vanilla Extract: Enhances the chocolate taste. Pure, actual vanilla extract is advisable.
Chocolate Chips: Use semi-sweet chocolate chips when you like darker chocolate, or milk chocolate for these with a sweeter tooth. Our favourite chocolate chip? Guittard all the best way!
All-Objective Flour: This recipe has been totally examined utilizing each all-purpose and bread flour which each work nice. Different flours haven’t been totally vetted.
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: We used Hershey’s unsweetened cocoa powder on this recipe. As well as, it was additionally examined with Guittard dutch course of and Ghiradelli unsweetened cocoa powder, all of which labored efficiently. Hershey’s was our favourite.
Brown Sugar: Gentle or darkish brown sugar works, however darkish brown sugar goes to offer you a deeper taste and a chewier cookie layer.
Baking Soda: Verify the expiration date to make sure correct leavening.

Lining Your Pan

In my testing, I discovered that it was finest to line the pan with parchment paper with a slight overhang. This prevents the brookie from effervescent up over the perimeters in addition to retains them from sticking to the pan.

It’s useful to spray the pan with nonstick cooking spray first to assist the parchment paper stick. It will make it simpler to unfold the brownie batter into the corners with out the entire thing sliding round.

Don’t Overbake!

These are the fudgiest, chewiest, most wonderful dessert bars so long as they aren’t overbaked. Don’t get me mistaken, they’re nonetheless good, simply not the identical degree of fudgy deliciousness.

Because the brookie bakes, you’ll discover it effervescent and respiratory. As quickly because it stops doing that, take away them from the oven. Begin watching on the 30-minute mark and also you’ll see it occur.

An overhead view of a sheet pan of brookies with one piece missing and the spatula resting in its place ready to serve out the next square.

Adapting for a 9×13

May you make these in a 9×13 pan as a substitute of a sheet pan? Completely! They’ll be thick, wonderful monsters of a dessert, however you will want to regulate the baking time.

Enhance the baking time to 40 to 45 minutes for a 9×13 pan.

Storage Directions

Retailer brownies at room temperature in an hermetic container for as much as 3 days. If stacking, place a sheet of parchment paper between layers to forestall sticking.

To freeze, wrap particular person brookies tightly in plastic wrap and place them in a resealable freezer bag or hermetic container for as much as 3 months. To thaw, go away them at room temperature for 1–2 hours or pop them within the microwave for 10–15 seconds.