Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour*
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars. Stir in milk and vanilla. Gradually add in flour. Stir in chocolate chips. Spread over cooled brownies.
*You can use GF all-purpose flour in this recipe.
Peanut Butter Frosting
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup butter, softened
3 cups powdered sugar
1/4 – 1/3 cup milk
In a mixing bowl, beat peanut butter, butter, and powdered sugar together. Stir in milk until the mixture reaches the desired spreading consistency. Spread over cooled brownies.
You can melt 1/4 cup of semi-sweet chips with 1 tablespoon butter and create a pretty zig zag pattern by drizzling the chocolate over the frosting.
Mocha Fudge Frosting
6 Tablespoons coffee
6 Tablespoon butter, softened
6 Tablespoon cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
Combine coffee, butter, cocoa, and vanilla; mix well. Slowly add powdered sugar; beat on med. speed until well mixed. If the frosting is too thick you can add a little coffee or milk, if too thin add more sugar. Spread over cooled brownies. I like to spread chopped pecans over the frosting.
Cinnamon Cocoa Frosting
6 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
Combine butter, cocoa, cinnamon, and vanilla. Alternate adding powdered sugar and milk. Beat until it reaches a desired spreading consistency. Spread over cooled brownies.
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Hoosier Homemade says
Those look like great frostings! We love brownies in our house! Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
Dishesdone says
Brownies awesome, and with cookie dough frosting, has to be amazing! All the frosting sound great nut the cookie dough has to be over the top good!
Amy Green says
I just had to stop by and see what you were putting on your brownies…it's just as much fun to look as it is to eat.
I'm GF so I love that you added the substitution. Great post!
Lisa @ Stop and Smell the Chocolates says
Oh MY!!! I grew up without the privilege of frosted brownies, so have never made them with frosting. But these choices are making me drool – a LOT. I think I need to have a brownie-tasting party – LOL! I'll have to try some to see what I like best! Thanks for sharing!
Suzy says
I'd go for the peanutbutter but certainly couldn't resist the cookie dough out of curiousity! All look yum!
Alea says
Struggler,
The frosting density is inversely propotional to the moisture content of the brownies. I will concede, that in theory, a very moist brownie could be consumed without frosting.
Fifi Flowers says
That looks DELICIOUS!!!
Struggler says
Is there a scientific formula for the correct ratio of brownie to frosting? I actually quite like naked brownies (Hah, why did I click through then?) but I could be persuaded by a frosting ratio of no more than about 5:1.
🙂
mrs. fisher's findings says
These all sound so good! i agree that I will be copying them down right now!!
Kristen says
Wonderful ideas! I love that you have made a rather ordinary brownie quite extraordinary!
Joyce says
Thanks for the quick response. Guess I just read or copied it wrong. I better get new glasses:) I am ready to go in and make the frosting now. Thanks again.
Joyce
pk says
Yum! These all look great but I think I'll have to try the chocolate chip cookie dough frosting first!
susan says
I am copying every one right now! Thanks!
heartnsoulcooking says
So many to choose from,I feel like a kid in a candy store. I think I want all of them. THANKS!!! Geri
Alea says
Honeysuckle, The flour bulks it up, makes it smooth (without making it too sweet like powdered sugar would) and makes it taste more like cookie dough. I am hoping to try using this to make homemade cookie dough ice-cream this summer.
Alea says
Joyce, I am sorry it has taken me so long to respond; I am on Pacific Time. The Choc. chip. cokie dough icing calls for 1/2 cup of brown and white sugar. You can lick the bowl, because there is not egg in the frosting. 🙂
Shana says
Yum. I made homemade brownies with fudge frosting the other day for a church dinner. So good! The peanut butter frosting would have to be my next favorite!
honeysuckle says
I usually am too hurried or lazy when I make brownies so I pour chocolate chips on them when they come out of the oven, then stick them in the refridge to cool them but the cookie dough recipe was intriguing. Is the flour in it just to bulk it up enough for frosting consistancy? Thanks for sharing. Have a happy day!
Joyce says
Back again with a question about the cookie dough icing. It says sugars but there is only brown sugar listed so I assume this is the only sugar and no white sugar? Yes I am in the kitchen already making these:) I just know that I am going to be licking the bowl on this one:)
Joyce
The Thrifty Countrywoman says
I've got to give that chocolate chip cookie dough frosting a try! Sounds great!
Joyce says
Choc chip cookie dough makes me think I died and went to heaven:) Thanks for sharing all these lucious recipes with me. I am off to whip up some brownies this AM for my husband to bring to his family in NY tomorrow.
Joyce
Melissa says
My mouth is watering already! The chocolate chip cookie dough frosting looks the best, but the others sound pretty great, as well.