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Black Bottom Brownie Cookies

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Black bottom brownie cookies topped with flaky salt on a plate with a bite out of one of the cookies.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell

An overnight freeze solidifies classic brownie batter (in this case, one of the all-time greats: Alice Medrich’s best cocoa brownies) into something entirely different—a scoopable cookie dough that holds its shape when rolled and then transforms into fudgy, chubby, cream cheese-filled cookies in the oven.

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