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Super Chocolaty Gluten Free Brookies Recipe

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If you like chocolate cookies and brownies, you are in for a treat with these gluten free brookies cookies. These cookies are moist and delicious and full of chocolate.

You will need to hide these from your family if you want more than one for yourself!! I made a short video to show you how easy this brookie cookie recipe is to make.

a brookies cookie on a stack of white plates. A glass of milk is next to the stack.

I know your first question. What the heck is a brookie?

First, you have to choose a team. Team Cookie or Team Brownie. Once you decide on your team, you can decide what you think of this gluten free  brookies recipe. Consider these to be like brownie cookies. They are moist like brownies, but they hold their shape like a cookie.

I adapted this recipe from one my friend Charissa at Zest Bakery likes to make. She calls these “brookies” because they are a cross between a brownie and a cookie.

a brookie cookie on a plate. The cookie has a bite taken out.

My kids love these chocolaty cookies. They are soft and sweet…but not too sweet. This is a fun recipe to make with them because you get to use your hands to roll the brookie dough into balls.

(insert photo of rolling the brookies in powdered sugar.)

top view of a brookie cookie on a plate

If you love chocolate, you will want to also try these gluten free chocolate desserts:

a stack of four brookie cookies next to a blue denim napkin

Are you ready to see how easy these brookies are to make? Here is a quick video to show you every step of the way!

What do you think? Easy, right?

a cookie sheet with chocolate brookies ready to bake.

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Things You Need to Make This Brookie Cookie Recipe:

  1.  I used this gluten free flour blend. I believe Zest has a custom gluten free flour blend available in their bakery too.
  2. A great cookie sheet.
  3. You will want a good quality cocoa powder like this one by Anthony’s.

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How to make these gluten free brookies:

Easy Gluten Free Brookies Cookies

Easy Gluten Free Brookies Cookies

Yield: 24 cookies
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Easy cookies that combine a cookie and a brownie!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 1/4 cups white sugar
  • 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups gluten free flour blend
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • confectioner’s sugar

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, sugar, cocoa, and salt. Whisk to blend.
  2. In another bowl, add all wet ingredients and mix well.
  3. Slowly stir the liquid mixture into the flour mixture until fully incorporated. 
  4. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled.
  5. Scoop chilled dough into small balls and roll in confectioner’s sugar. I found that it was easy to just scoop out a chunk of dough, sprinkle some powdered sugar on it, and then roll it into a ball. Use a glass to smoosh the balls flat to about 1 inch thickness.
  6. Place cookie balls on a parchment paper covered baking sheet. Bake in 350F oven for 10-12 minutes.
  7. They should still be a bit soft, but fully cooked all the way through.
  8. Allow to cool on the baking sheet for a minute or two before moving them to a cooling rack.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 155 Total Fat: 6g Saturated Fat: 4g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 1g Cholesterol: 31mg Sodium: 54mg Carbohydrates: 24g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 15g Protein: 3g
Please note this nutrition information is calculated by a recipe plugin and is an estimate based on the ingredients used in this recipe.
© Sandi Gaertner
Cuisine: American / Category: Dessert
(**NOTE: This post was one of my very first posts on this blog from 11/2013. I updated the post, re-did the recipe, reshot the pictures and added a tutorial video on 3/2018.)

I would be grateful if you shared this recipe :-)

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Comments

  1. Trudee

    May 29, 2018 at 7:50 pm

    You should edit your steps. Currently, it says to mix “the chocolate mixture with the flour mixture”
    But the cocoa and flour are already together. I think you might mean the wet mixture and the flour mixture. 😊

    Reply

    • Sandi Gaertner

      May 31, 2018 at 12:43 pm

      Thank you so much Trudee. I agree that can be a bit confusing so I changed the wording. Thank you so much 🙂

      Reply

  4. Jill

    March 7, 2018 at 1:47 pm

    Gotta love a super chocolatey cookie! I’ve never actually baked with coconut oil before – I’ll have to try these.

    Reply

    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 7, 2018 at 5:07 pm

      I like to use coconut oil instead of butter…it helps make things dairy free. Thank you for stopping by 🙂

      Reply

  6. Cindy

    March 7, 2018 at 12:50 pm

    I love a solid brookie – yours look fantastic! For some reason I couldn’t get the video to play (said I had no media compatible but that can’t be true!) Anyway, the static pics are mouthwatering enough.

    Reply

    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 7, 2018 at 5:14 pm

      How strange about the video. I just tested it and it played, please do come back and try again if you would like to see it.

      Reply

  7. Joyce

    March 7, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    I love the name haha Brookies! I am a huge chocoholic and my husband loves cookies so in theory this should be perfect right? Except we will probably fight for every single one haha. 2 batches of this is definitely in order, this is such a fantastic recipe!. 🙂

    Reply

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