Christmas Crinkle Brookies

"You better watch out, you better not cry, You better not pout, I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town....." 

I have a tongue twister for you! Try saying the title of this post 10 times, very fast!!

Christmas Crinkle Brookies
Christmas Crinkle Brookies
Christmas Crinkle Brookies
Christmas Crinkle Brookies
Christmas Crinkle Brookies
Christmas Crinkle Brookies
Christmas Brinkle Ciikies.... oopsie 

Thats how far I got. 

The year's almost coming to the end and before I get into romanticizing it all, every moment, of each day I thank God for the blessing that life is with the good the bad and the ugly. And no, this is not a NEW YEAR post because before the NYE, comes CHRISTMASSSSSS!! 

And how do we celebrate something we love?!

With Somethin' sweet!! 

For that I made these gobsmacking lovely batch of Brookies! 

Oh n these work really well if you want to bribe Santa into leaving you some good presents when he does walk down the chimney. Tried n tested. My Santa is always very kind to me and I think its because he loves these Brookies! Shhh... don't tell him this secret.... Thank you. 

For the uninitiated Brookies are Brownies + Cookies combined in one! Ahhh the goodness!! 

Today I made choco chip, red velvet and vanilla. Yummm!!!

And these ones look oh-so-pretty!! The best part- so easy to make!!! 'Tis the season to be jolly......

Serves: makes a batch of 24-28 brookies depending on the size

Time taken: 30 mins + cooling time

Complexity: ***

You'll need

2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup brown sugar
100 gms or 1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
100 gms dark chocolate (use 3-4 tbsp cocoa powder instead if needed)
1/2 cup dark semi sweet chocolate chips
2 tsp vanilla essence
1 tbsp red food colouring
1 tbsp green food colouring
confectioner's sugar for dredging (explained below)
Pinch of love


Method

In a large bowl, add the butter and sugar. I had muscovado sugar on hand I used that. I use Demerara too sometimes. So its upto you. Also I prefer using salted butter as it enhances all the flavours and perks them up. Or you can choose to add 1/2 tsp salt when you add the flour

Cream the butter and sugar together. My sugar was quite lumpy and I didn't bother dissolving it all. It all ends well.

Crack open the eggs. The eggs I had were pretty small so I used 3, but for 2 cups of flour, 2 eggs are enough. Give them a good whisk.

In goes the vanilla essence 

Combine flour n baking powder in a separate bowl and give it a rough mix

Add the flour mix to the wet ingredients. 

Here's everything combined together. My mixture was a little wet. If you use 2 eggs your mixture will be more like a dough which would be perfect. Add in your pinch of love

Now separate out 1/3rd of the dough in another bowl.

Add the green food colouring to this. Combine till you get the desired colour. I suggest you add the colour gradually, few drops at at time to get the desired result. 

Next, melt the hot chocolate bar in a double boiler. Cheers for my makeshift self made double boiler! Also, look at how glossy the melting chocolate looks....mmmm sexxxaayyyy!!

When the chocolate is almost melted, add it to the remaining 2/3rds of the brookie mixture.

Combine it all together. 

Now halve this mixture and transfer the half to another bowl. 

Add the dark choco chips to the chocolate brookie batch.

In the last part, add the red food colouring. 

Combine well. Also since I used brown sugar and the chocolate is also brown, my red colour isnt that bright vibrant red but you could make those changes if you want to.

Look how gorgeous these coloured bowls look! Christmas-sy!!

Transfer the mix onto saran wrap or cling films, wrap them tight n place in fridge for 3 hours till they harden. 

After 3 hours, remove from fridge. Have your oven preheating at 180C or 350F.

Scoop out dough with spoons of same size, no need to be fastidious though, and roll them to make balls. 

In a plate, have a cup of confectioner's sugar ready. 

Place the dough balls in the sugar and coat them well. 

Place the rolled balls in the baking tray lined with foil. My pretty little babies. 

Place the tray in the oven for 12- 15 mins or till done. This is almost at the 10 minute mark. 

The brookies are ready!!! ( My pretty li'l origami tree makes it all so festive!) 

Look how pretty n gorgeous and beautiful and delicious! 

Tell me Santa won't be impressed!! 

I made a a batch of 12 brookies and made a swirl brownie with the left over dough. It was easier for me since my dough was slightly wet because of the eggs. The groovy swirly brookie ready to be baked.

A light dusting of sugar and in the oven it goes! 

After 15 -18 mins, insert a tooth pick in the middle n if it comes out clean, take it out the oven.

The flaky crust on this was ammaahhhyyyyzing!! Here's a peek inside... the melted choco chips....mmmm.... Chocolate really is the best thing in the world!! 

Try it out, give your Santa some company, celebrate the joy, count your blessings, live a little! Indulge!