I will call them "Crownies" (Recipe Post)

Post by The Grumpy One

So it is time for this week's creation...I kinda wanted to make cookies, but I also wanted brownies, so I decided to make what I call "Crownies" (pronounce it like Brownies with a C.) I couldn't think of a more clever way to mix the words, and Brookies just doesn't sound that macho.

So these special treats take a lot more ingredients than I usually use, but for what we are doing, it will amaze you at how easy this is, and how great they taste.

So we start with 1/4 Cup of butter, 4 oz of cream cheese, Fudge topping, 2 eggs, 1 cup of peanut  butter, 1 box of brownie mix, and 1 cup of powdered sugar.

Start off by preheating your oven to 350.

Melt the butter in the microwave (about 30 seconds) after melted, mix in brownie mix, eggs, and cream cheese.

You could cheat and use a blender, but I just mixed it by hand.  It sounds like it would be harder to do, but my precious Seahawks just lost a game they should have won, so I needed to take out my aggression on the Crownie mix.

Now get out a cookie sheet, and since it's me cooking its no surprised that like usual I "Cover the cookie sheet with parchment paper."  The reason for this, 1. less dishes afterwards. 2. If you are doing multiple batches, it is really easy to take off one sheet to cool and immediately put another sheet on the baking sheet. 3. If you use parchment paper, you don't have to use butter or grease to make them not stick to the pan, so your crownies will not be as greasy on the bottom.  O.k. enough ranting, put tablespoon sized clumps on the sheet.

Now to make sure they don't mix together, place them about two inches apart, since I went to public school, my two inches vary a lot.

In another bowl mix the peanut butter and powdered sugar.

Just mix it with a spoon, this is the hardest thing about the recipe (except not eating them all before you get to work.)

Now make little clumps and drop them into the dough clumps.

 Once they are ready to go, put them in the oven for 10-14 minutes.  Now they are NOT going to look like regular cookies, they are more tender like brownies, so just make sure the edges are set (mine only took 12 minutes) you don't want to over cook them.

Once they are done, let them cool for about 30 minutes.  Once they have cooled, use your fudge topping to cover the peanut butter.

I tried to cover them to the point that they just looked like a chocolate cookie.  That way when you bite into the Crownie, you get a little surprise.

They are really good, and the recipe makes about two dozen... the only problem, it is going to be really tough trying to make sure any of them make it to work for people to taste test.