Ultimate Chocolate Chip,Oreo and Fudge Brownie Bar

“May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate.” 
― Geraldine Solon, Chocolicious

Forgive me Lord, for I have sinned..
I have induced chocolate  chip cookies and brownies and Oreo's into an unnaturally symbiotic relationship...

And now, I am hooked!
All my controlled eating for the last one month has just been washed down the drain...just the whiff of this Ultimate Chocolate Chip,Oreo and Fudge Bar and I was lost.
OK the pix are not that great, but I wish you could smell the warmth emanating from this plate.
I have never been so enamoured by anything I baked in a long long time....
And now ,as it rains(after the most miserable spell of heat in Ranchi)I sit with the small portion I had tasted for myself and nibble at it with the tiniest of tiny bites.
Ah pleasure...
I made Mango Cheesecake yesterday and as I served dessert, I realised that Nothing, nothing has the power to tempt me as much as Chocolate.
And if you adore chocolate as much as I do...

Remember Chocolate is your best friend.
I tasted something similar in Delhi and when I googled for this I found all about it here.here.
The whole day my house was full of the aromas of baking warm chocolate and butter and more chocolate...sweet dog just went nuts...hovering everywhere in the kitchen...licking off all that fell from the kitchen counter.
The mess maker decided to assist the baker in these endeavours...and a lot of the uncooked batter went straight into the tummy.
But I'm sure that is what happens when your kids bake with you.


This was a soul satisfying experience...and what I tasted in Delhi was nowhere close to what we managed.


Drag your kids or your spouse or for that matter your best friend into this...the making will e as much fun as the baking and  the final product will be soooo worth it.
I don't like to brag...but this is worth bragging about.


for the


Ultimate Chocolate Chip,Oreo and Fudge Brownie Bar...


you need


35 Oreos


Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough...
1 cup/225 gms butter
1 3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla essence
2 cups chocolate chips(I cut a slab of semi sweet chocolate into small pieces)
1 tsp baking soda/bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp salt


Cream the butter and the sugar.It works better with superfine sugar..but here out of sheer lack of foresight we just open our sugar jar and use whatever is available.

One egg at a time beat them in with the vanilla.

Sift the dry ingredients together.

Fold the flour into the butter mix .I thinned the cookie dough with 2-3 tbsp milk because it looked a wee bit dry to me.

Now, decadence!

The chocolate.

You can eat away at this stage...yum, yum, yum!

OK what you should have done was line a 9 by 13 Pyrex dish with paper or foil. If you do not have a Pyrex dish then 2 square 8 by 8 tins are good too. But make sure you line the tins or dish.And buttered it.

Spread the batter over the base.

Now open the Oreo’s and spread them all over the base...likes so. The promise of this dessert was so strong that only one Oreo was devoured by sweet child.

Now turn on the oven to 180C/350F.

For the

Fudge Brownies

You can go for pre made or elevate the bars to Cordon Bleu status.

I did...premade here is crappy, totally not worth the effort or the cost.

I do it the real way.

300 Gms semi sweet chocolate

1 cup/225 Gms butter

4 tbsp cocoa powder

1 cup sugar (I used ½ cup)

2 tsp vanilla essence

6 eggs

1 ½ cup flour

½ tsp salt

Place the chocolate and the butter in a pan and place over a simmering bowl of water or a Bain Marie...double boiler.

Stir till it melts and add in the cocoa powder.

Take it off the heat and stir to cool the mix. In the meanwhile sift the flour and salt together.

When the chocolate mix has cooled...yes you can taste it now...absolutely divine!

Add in the eggs one at a time, beating them in well.

The sugar goes in now or before the eggs...whatever makes you smile.

Once that is done add the essence and then just simply fold in the flour.

Voila...C’est fini!

Pour over the Oreos.

Sweet child wanted his individual portion...so we made a separate bowl to satisfy his royal highness’ chocolate craving.

Oktent a piece of Al Foil over the dish and pop them in for 30 minutes.

By now your kitchen will be the place to be.

Remove the foil covers and the dishes go back in for another 40 minutes.

The brownie mix will be woozy, shiny and drunk looking...and firm around the edges.

The cookie mix will look cooked.

And when you put a pick in the Oreo will have surrendered and will not offer any resistance...

Though you may have a bit brownie mix sticking to your pick...but that will be done by the time this cools.

Cool!

Turn out, turn over and slice and serve with a blob of vanilla ice-cream and fudge...or just eat cold...

Heaven is made of this.

And you are hooked..the smell of this ultimate bar..lingers on me now!

Where the cookie starts and ends and where the Oreo is and where the brownie lives...it’s all like harry potter and No 13 Grimmauld Place. Blend in!

Temptation...I love you hot, cold with or without the ice cream...

This time the pictures did no justice...make the chocolate chip cookies or the fudge brownies..but when you do it together...

WOW!

So what are you waiting for???