Cookie Dough Flourless Brownie Pizza

 

I am an only child. Did you know that?

The stereotype surrounding only children is that we are typically stubborn and selfish, a product of being used to getting our way.

As I have gotten older and certainly since becoming a mother, I like to think I became more of a selfless person.

For the most part.

I have no problem telling you that I am completely stubborn and selfish when it comes to dessert.

I honestly think this is completely acceptable because why should I have to share my food and if I give you the no share disclaimer ahead of time, you received fair enough warning to order your own.

The only questionable selfish dessert habit I have is that I don’t really care (gosh this sounds mean but its true) what kind of dessert you may want as your birthday cake because if I am left in charge of selecting it, I will pick what I like and not what you may prefer.

The guy who likes to bring me flowers for no particular reason requested the other day that I make last week’s cookie dough flourless brownie pizza as his birthday cake this fall.

How pretty are this week’s flowers?!

While I smiled and appreciated how much he loved my latest dessert creation, I politely informed him that he was getting a chocolate fudge cake topped with rainbow cookies from my favorite bakery, Torta Fina.

The only thing I can maybe do is make this cookie dough flourless brownie pizza in addition to getting that chocolate cake as a compromise. Relationships are about compromise, right?

I gave you a sneak peak of this too decadent for words dessert creation the other day but it deserves full details so that you can make it too.

I knew the combination of Amanda’s flourless double fudge brownies and my cookie dough would be a winner.

I mean, the cookie dough alone was so killer when I made the samoa cookie dough bark back in the winter that it was time to bring it back to life with a new recipe.

 

Instead of baking the brownies as traditional brownies, I went with a round cake pan in order to make more of a dessert pizza.

As the brownie pizza was in the oven, I prepared my cookie dough.

A few minor adjustments to my original cookie dough recipe:

• Increased ingredient measurements to have more cookie dough to go around the brownie pizza
• Used dairy-free chocolate chips to make this recipe dairy-free
• Added a scoop of coconut flour for fun

Let’s talk some stats before getting to the recipe:

Amanda’s flourless double fudge brownie recipe is naturally gluten-free. If you use dairy-free chocolate chips, it’s dairy-free too.

The cookie dough contains oat-flour; use gluten-free oats if you want a gluten-free recipe.

Both the cookie dough and brownie recipe use coconut palm sugar; I use a small amount of granulated sugar for the cookie dough but I am confident you can leave it out without really noticing.

Gluten-free, refined-flour free and dairy-free? Suddenly sounds like health food to me.

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Anyone else an only child?

Favorite kind of birthday cake/dessert?

If you have to pick one – brownies or cookies?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cookie Dough Flourless Brownie Pizza (Dairy-Free/Gluten-Free option)

Recipe Type: healthy dessert

Author: meredith

Prep time: 7 mins

Cook time: 10 mins

Total time: 17 mins

This cookie dough flourless brownie pizza is too decadent for words! Refined-flour free, there are options to make it dairy and gluten-free too!

Ingredients

• For the brownie:
• Follow Running With Spoons [url href=”http://www.runningwithspoons.com/2014/12/12/flourless-double-chocolate-brownies” target=”_blank”]recipe[/url]
• For the cookie dough:
• 1/2 cup melted coconut oil
• 1/2 cup nut butter of choice
• 3/4 cup oat flour (gluten-free, if necessary)
• 1 tablespoon coconut flour
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2/3 cup coconut palm sugar
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup (or more!) mini chocolate chips (dairy-free if necessary)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Follow recipe for brownies and pour batter into lightly greased round cake pan (8 or 9 inch is fine).
3. Bake brownie for about 20 minutes, checking with a toothpick in center to ensure it comes out clean.
4. Do not overcook!
5. While brownies are cooking, prepare cookie dough.
6. Melt coconut oil and mix with sugars until well combined.
7. Add in peanut butter and vanilla, mixing well.
8. Add oat flour and coconut flour, mixing until very well combined.
9. Stir in chocolate chips.
10. When brownies are cooled, top with cookie dough.
11. Slice and serve.

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